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PIONEERS OF FLIGHT


                                            SIDE VIEW OF WRIGHT FLYER, 1903
                                                                    Wing warping          Pusher propeller
                                                                    wire
                                              Water-filled radiator                       (rear-mounted
         Plain                                                        Chain drive         propeller)
         cotton fabric
                                      Front diagonal strut
                                                                                         Rigid
                                                                                         leading
                              Elevator drive                                             edge
                              wheel
                                                                                           Steel hub
                                                                                            Steel
                                                    Water                                   propeller
          Interplane                                pipe                                    shaft
          strut
                                                                                         Rudder
                   Front-mounted          Bracing
                   biplane elevator       wire

                                                                                              Braced
                                                                                              rudder strut
                                                                       Magneto
                            Landing skid     Elevator       Pilot’s                 Rudder
                                             control cable  cradle                  control cable
                                                                     Four-cylinder
                                                          Warping    12-HP engine
                                                          connection             Propeller-shaft
                                                                                 bracing strut
                                                          strut
             Softwood
             strut                             Tailplane  Elevator control wire
                      Laminated
                      wooden boom      Rudder
                                       bracing wire                              Rudder

                                                                                 Elevator
                                                                                 operating arm


                                                                                       Elevator




                                   FRONT VIEW OF CURTISS MODEL-D PUSHER, 1911
                          Rudder control wheel             Nine-cylinder
                                                Fuel and                  Elevator
                                                           Salmson radial
                      Anti-lift wire            oil tank                  operating arm
                                                           engine
                                                                                              Aileron
              Starboard                                                                       operating arm
              aileron
                                                                                                 Port
                                                                                                 aileron
         Carved
         interplane strut
                                                                                              Wing-protecting
                                                                                              skid
                                                                       Tubular
             Wing-protecting           Control                         steel leg  Interplane strut pin-jointed
             skid          Lift wire   column
                                              Seat beam                          to front spar
                                                                Main landing gear
                                                 Footrest  Axle  lateral brace
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