Glenn Curtiss making a flight in one of his first aeroplanes.
ORVILLE WRIGHT MAKING A FLIGHT AT FORT MYER
The aeroplane first became well known in this country when the Wright brothers carried on their Fort Myer tests.
Courtesy of the Scientific American
THE FIRST LETTER EVER WRITTEN ABOARD AN AEROPLANE IN FLIGHT
This was written at the time Ovington was carrying aeroplane mail from Garden City to Mineola, by aeroplane.