Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials, Selfridge Crash. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8452
Summary:
View of the broken propeller blade from the Wright Flyer crash of September 17, 1908. Caption on back [of NASM 00100842] reads: "Wright propeller blade broken Sept. 17, 1908, Ft. Meyer (same as I-86)."[print] The broken propellor note gap where wire hit it
Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials, Selfridge Crash. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Subject:
Selfridge, Thomas E
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8455
Summary:
Unidentified soldiers and civilians gather around Lt. Thomas Selfridge (on stretcher) after he was fatally injured in the crash of the Wright (Co) Type A Military biplane during the Army Trials at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 17, 1908
Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials, Selfridge Crash. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8456
Summary:
Long view of wreckage of the Wright (Co) Type A Military biplane following its crash during the Army Trials at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 17, 1908. Small crowd of spectators stand at left midground; man and woman look on from horse and buggy carriage at right midground
Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials, Selfridge Crash. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8457
Summary:
One-half left front view of wreckage of the Wright (Co) Type A Military biplane following its crash during the Army Trials at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 17, 1908. A mounted cavalry office rides past at left midground; rear end of horse visible at extreme right foreground
Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8459
Summary:
View of Hospital at Fort Myer, 1908. [Hospital to which LT Thomas E. Selfridge was brought following the crash of the Wright Military Flyer on September 17, 1908, and where he died.]
Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials, Selfridge Crash. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Subject:
Selfridge, Thomas E
Wright, Orville 1871-1948
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8448
Summary:
[photo list I] Start of the fatal flight. Note absence of spokes in sprocket wheels, showing propellors are revolving. {Lt} Selfridge has his hand on trigger release which allows weight to fall, pulling plane on rail. Selfridge's last words were to me: "Step back, Claudy, we're going..." (Sept 17, 1908) [print #42] The start of the fatal flight: Selfridge nearest camera. Propellers are going, just ready to start. Right 1/2 right front view of Lt. Thomas Selfridge and Orville Wright in the Wright Military Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 17, 1908. Official USAF caption, "Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge seated in Wright airplane with Mr. Wright at Fort Myer, Virginia, day of accident (cause of Lt. Selfridge's death) - September 17, 1908."
Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials, Selfridge Crash. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Subject:
Squier, George O
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Airplanes
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8453
Summary:
[photo list I] Four minutes later {Sept 17, 1908} [print #43] Four minutes after start, Sept 17, plane crashed. Soldier pointing is Sergt. Downey, S.C. Man behind, straw hat, Major Squier. [print] Disaster. Orville is still in the wreckage. The little group at right is working over Selfridge. Aftermath of the crash of Orville Wright and Lt. Thomas O. Selfridge in the Wright Type A Military Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 17, 1908, during US Army flight trials
Events, 1908, Fort Myer (VA), Wright (Co) Type A Military Trials, Selfridge Crash. [photograph]
Photographer:
Claudy, C. H (Carl Harry) 1879-1957
Subject:
Selfridge, Thomas E
Type:
Photographs
Date:
9/17/1908
Topic:
Aeronautics
Aeronautics, Military
Local number:
XXXX-0549_95-8460
Summary:
Unidentified doctors bend over Lt. Thomas Selfridge (lying on ground, legs extending at left) after he was fatally injured in the crash of the Wright 1908 Military Flyer at the Army Trials at Fort Myer, Virginia, September 17, 1908. View is obscured at right side by spectators standing in foreground. Wing of the crashed aircraft visible in left background
