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The Collection: Photographers: Unknown photographer

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Preparing to launch a Model B, two men stand ready to pull the propellers through, two hold the tail boom, Coffyn stands at the front, tending to the engine, and one is seated on board.Model B just before launch. The propellers spinning, four men hold the tail boom, Coffyn and passenger aboard.Model B taking off, with three men in view, having just let go of the tail boom.
Orville Wright taking off in a Wright transitional aircraft.Walter Brookins and Frank Coffyn in discussion, Atlantic City, New Jersey.Frank Coffyn, Arch Hoxsey, and Duval La Chapelle posing with a Wright transitional aircraft.
Unidentified man in a pine treeFrank Coffyn walking in front of a Wright Model B.Frank Coffyn, Walter Brookins, and Griffith Brewer in a field.
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For most of the images in the collection, the photographer is unknown. The Wright team attracted a great number of photographers eager to fill newspapers and magazines with pictures of the brand new aeroplane. Although the pilots obliged their many requests, on one occasion a group of photographers ran out in front of Walter Brookins' plane as he was beginning to land. Brookins had no choice but to immediately nose his airplane into the ground to avoid hitting them.


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