File:Wright Bros original airplane "Kitty Hawk", 1of3 crates, unloaded from USS Palau at Bayonne-NY Naval Shipyard annex on Operation Homecoming, London to DC, Nov 19, 1948.png
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English: The original Wright Brothers' aeroplane, the 1903 "Kitty Hawk", 1 of 3 crates being unloaded from the USS Palau (CVE-122) at the New York Naval Shipyard annex in Bayonne, NJ on November 19, 1948 on Operation Homecoming, enroute from London, England to Washington DC, for permanent exhibition in the US National Museum (the Smithsonian). 2 of the 3 crates were reported to have been originally built by Orville Wright (see news report, pdf page 45 of 254). |
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| Source | https://sova.si.edu/record/NASM.XXXX.0393?s=11210&n=10&t=C&q=Art&i=11212 (pdf page 53 of 254) |
| Author | "Patricia Williams" |
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| current | 03:01, 10 January 2022 | | 1,699 × 1,344 (2.33 MB) | Wright Stuf | Previous versions of this image had a glitch. Now fixed. |
| 23:47, 9 January 2022 |  | 1,699 × 1,344 (2.33 MB) | Wright Stuf | Cropped, contrast adjusted | |
| 23:45, 9 January 2022 |  | 2,156 × 1,675 (2.53 MB) | Wright Stuf | Uploaded a work by "Patricia Williams" from https://sova.si.edu/record/NASM.XXXX.0393?s=11210&n=10&t=C&q=Art&i=11212 with UploadWizard |
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