With Wings as Eagles From Fantasy to Flight

With Wings as Eagles… From Fantasy to Flight Selected images from the Library of Congress documenting the history of flight…

Humorous portrayal of a man who flies with wings attached to his tunic…

The "Aerocar" …

Aeronautics …

Airship Hindenberg …

Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846 …

Alan Shepard being hauled into helicopter after landing his space capsule…

American Clipper…

Balloons, airships and other flying machines designed with some form of propulsion …

Charles Lindbergh, adjusting parachute before testing Sergeant Bell's experimental plane…

Charles H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute aeronaut…

De. Bothezat helicopter descending for a landing …

Dies - mythological portrait of Icarus falling from the sky. . .

Flugmaschine…

Ford's flying flivver arrives in Washington …

Flying Wing XB-35 …

Air-balloons …

Giant Caproni seaplane …

Glenn Martin debarking "China Clipper" for 25 th anniversary of his flight to Catalina …

Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883…

The Hughes Flying-boat seaplane under construction…

The hydro-"Fabre“ – the first apparatus to take off from water …

Arnold Coblitz in his ornithopter in Czechoslovakia …

The coming mode of travel, Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-Ship …

The Stride of a Century…

Voyage a la lune …

Wilbur Wright examining canoe attachment to aeroplane before 1 st flight over water …

Will Rogers at Fairbanks, Alaska …

Ayres' new aerial machine …

Lamson's Air Ship Kite ascending with passenger …

First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10: 35 a. m. ; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina …

With Wings as Eagles: From Fantasy to Flight Object List Slide 1 – Title slide (thumbnails of three images in slide show) Slide 2 - Humorous portrayal of a man who flies with wings attached to his tunic (between 1800 and 1830) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002722387/ Slide 3 - The "Aerocar, " a flying automobile, manufactured in the U. S (1957) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/97518748/ Slide 4 - Aeronautics / drawn by Joseph Clement ; engraved by A. W. Warren & J. Davis. (1818) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002722696/ Slide 5 - Airship Hindenberg over ocean; deck of ocean liner in foreground (1936) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/20072721629/ Slide 6 - Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846 http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002717347/ Slide 7 - Alan Shepard being hauled into helicopter after landing his space capsule in the water near the U. S. S. Champlain (1961) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/98513536/ Slide 8 - American Clipper. r (c. 1920 -1950) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/thc 1995006600/PP/ Slide 9 - Balloons, airships, and other flying machines designed with some form of propulsion (1885 -1904) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002722676/ Slide 10 - Charles Lindbergh, adjusting parachute before testing Sergeant Bell's experimental plane, 1925. http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/92520143/ Slide 11 - Chas. H. Kabrich, the only bike-chute aeronaut novel and thrilling, bicycle parachute act in mid-air. (1896) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/var 1993000561/PP/ Slide 12 - The De. Bothezat helicopter descending for a landing at Cook Field, Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1922 http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/93510855/ Slide 13 - Dies - Print portrays mythological portrait of Icarus showing him falling from the sky (1600 s) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2003674132/ Slide 14 - Flugmaschine. Erfunden von Jacob Degen in Wien, 1807 / Jos. Belbing, s. c. (1810) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2001701800/ Slide 15 - Ford's flying flivver arrives in Washington (1928) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/95502149/

Slide 16 - Flying Wing XB-35 (1946) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002721563/ Slide 17 - Air-balloons / A. Bell, sculpt. (1784) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002722692/ Slide 18 - Giant Caproni seaplane, with eight Liberty 400 -hp motors (c. 1921) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002721753/ Slide 19 - Glenn Martin debarking "China Clipper" for 25 th anniversary of his flight to Catalina http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/91721790/ Slide 20 - Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883 http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002717348/ Slide 21 - The Hughes Flying-boat seaplane under construction at its dock in Long Beach, Calif. http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/99472804/ Slide 22 - The hydro-"Fabre", first apparatus to take off from water, March 28, 1910 http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/90712962/ Slide 23 - Arnold Coblitz in ornithopter in Czechoslovakia (no date) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002722090/ Slide 24 - "The coming mode of travel, Prof. Harriman's Steam Air-Ship" (1890 s) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002718895/ Slide 25 - The Stride of a century (1876) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/93506699/ Slide 26 - Voyage a la lune (1865 – 1870) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002722394/ Slide 27 - Wilbur Wright examining canoe attachment to aeroplane before 1 st flight over water (1909) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2001704182/ Slide 28 - Will Rogers (1935) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/200221441/ Slide 29 – Ayres’ new aerial machine (1895) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2003665606/ Slide 30 - Lamson's Air Ship Kite ascending with passenger (1897) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/2002721634/ Slide 31 - First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10: 35 a. m. ; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (Dec. 17, 1903) http: //www. loc. gov/pictures/item/00652085/