In addition to flying machines, our Museum has several interesting artifacts related to the Wright Brothers. In particular there are several paintings depicting the brothers.
The Wright Brothers were inducted into our International Air & Space Hall of Fame in 1965, and this was the portrait used to commemorate this achievement.
This paiting by Frank Lemon portrays the Wrights' "Strange Contraption" and was signed by Orville Wright.
Artist Charles Hubbel gives his folksy take on the Wrights' famous flight.
This painting by Walter Hortens gives the impression that the Wright Flyer sored several hundred feet in the air. However, it only reached an altiude of about 10 feet on its first flight.
One of our prized objects is a reproduction of the engine used on the Wright Flyer that was made by San Diego Air & Space Museum volunteers.
After a short-lived merger with Glenn Martin, the Wrights' company, now known as Wright Aeronautical, produced several innovative and successful engines. Although the remaining brother, Orville's interest in the company was in name only, Wright Aeronautical carried on the groundbreaking legacy of the Wrights, and helped power America through the Golden Age of Flight. Our Museum has several Wright Aeronautical engines in our collection.
A Wright J-5C powered Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, and an original one can be seen in our flying replica.
Our collection includes a Wright R-1830 which was used on famous aircraft such as the B-24 and DC-3.
Wright also built a turbojet engine, the J-65, produced under license from Armstrong Siddeley.
Many of our Wright Brother's artifacts relate to Philately, the collecting of stamps. Take a look!
This collector's item features Wright Brothers stamps from 1977 and 2003.
This collection includes two Wright stamps. As the price indicates, these stamps are from almost 50 years ago.
A first day issue commemorating the first 50 years of flight.
Below you will find an assortment of odds and ends in our Curatorial collection that relate to the Wright Brothers.
Somewhere along the line we received a shingle from the Wright Brothers' cycle shop in Ohio.
Some of the models in our collection related to the Wright Brothers.
Certified fabric swatch from 1903 Wright Flyer flown to the moon aboard Apollo 11 Lunar Module on July 20, 1969.
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