BRANGER, MAURICE-LOUIS, photographer. Sepia toned gelatin silver print, 16-3/4 x 19-7/8 inches, signed ("M. Branger"), mounted and framed, depicting the Wright flyer over the field at Camp d'Auvours, with the tower of the launching mechanism in view to the left, among a group of onlookers. Framed and glazed. An unusually large image for the period, this shot shows detail of the tower that was developed by the Wrights to accelerate the plane down its track for takeoff, using a simple weight and pulleys to provide the motive force. Because the plane is moving toward the tower, and not away from it, we can see that the craft has made at least one complete turn, and returned to its starting point, and shows no sign of stopping. This may be the flight made on January 1, 1909, when Wilbur Wright set a duration and distance record in his 1907 Wright flyer, flying approximately 77 miles in 2 hours and 20 minutes. The man on the far right of the group sitting on a bench may be Léon Bollée.
BRANGER, MAURICE-LOUIS, photographer. Sepia toned gelatin silver print, 16-3/4 x 19-7/8 inches, signed ("M. Branger"), mounted and framed, depicting the Wright flyer over the field at Camp d'Auvours, with the tower of the launching mechanism in view to the left, among a group of onlookers. Framed and glazed. An unusually large image for the period, this shot shows detail of the tower that was developed by the Wrights to accelerate the plane down its track for takeoff, using a simple weight and pulleys to provide the motive force. Because the plane is moving toward the tower, and not away from it, we can see that the craft has made at least one complete turn, and returned to its starting point, and shows no sign of stopping. This may be the flight made on January 1, 1909, when Wilbur Wright set a duration and distance record in his 1907 Wright flyer, flying approximately 77 miles in 2 hours and 20 minutes. The man on the far right of the group sitting on a bench may be Léon Bollée.
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