Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Wright Brothers, Dayton, Ohio
- Physical Description
- Varnished wood wing rib made up from cap strips and wooden blocks. Metal strap used to attach rib to wing leading edge fastened to front of rib with tacks.
- Summary
- Wing rib from 1908 Wright Military Flyer. One of two wing ribs surviving from the aircraft that crashed at Fort Myer, Virginia, on September 17, 1908, during U.S. Army Signal Corps flight trials of the Wright aircraft. The crashed severely injured Orville Wright (pilot), and Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge (Army observer) died from his injuries. Selfridge's death was the first in a powered airplane. The Wright brothers returned to Fort Myer in 1909 with a new airplane to complete the flight trials and secured a contract with Army for the airplane, making the 1909 Wright Military Flyer the world's first military airplane.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Col. Henry Berliner
- 1908
- Inventory Number
- A19571012000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- CRAFT-Aircraft Parts
- Materials
- Wood
- Metal
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 186.7 × 11.4 × 3.3cm (73 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19571012000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9a2b65411-e75b-4aee-bd3e-c462b9cecfb8
