Archive concerning Wilbur Wright’s flights at the Auvours camp

by Wilbur Wright

$25,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Camp d’Auvours Champagné, Sarthe : September, 1908–14. A remarkable archive of photographs, drawings, and other ephemera documenting Wilbur Wright’s demonstration flights of his and his brother Orville’s Model A Flyer at the Camp d’Auvours near Le Mans beginning in 1908. Although the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright had, as early as 1905, invented the first aeroplane capable of making controlled turns, their flights

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