ORVILLE WRIGHT - CHECK SIGNED-WRIGHT BROTHERS 08/15/1908 - HFSID 6223
Sale Price $935.00
Reg. $1,100.00
ORVILLE WRIGHT
Check filled out and signed by the aviation pioneer!
Autograph Signed Check: "Orville Wright", 7½x3. Dayton, Ohio, August 15, 1908. Check
payable to "C. E. Taylor" for "$18.00". Drawn on The City National Bank, Dayton, Ohio.
ORVILLE WRIGHT (1871-1948) and his brother, Wilbur (1867-1912), had made aviation
history with their Flyer in Kitty Hawk, on North Carolina's Outer Banks, on December 17,
1903. While the Wrights had been testing their gliders on Kill Devil Hill for a number of years,
that day was different. At 10:35 a.m., Orville was at the controls of the 21-foot biplane
with the 40.3-foot wingspan. The 605-pound craft, powered by a 12-horsepower engine
that had four piston cylinders and revved to 1,090 rpm, left the ground, staying aloft for
12 seconds and covering 120 feet at an altitude of ten feet. Later that day, during one of
their three test flights, Wilbur also manned the controls, traveling 852 feet in 59 seconds. The
Wright brothers were granted the first U.S. patent for the Flying Machine in May
1906. After Wilbur's death from typhoid fever in 1912, Orville continued to be an innovator in
the aviation field. Cancellation holes. Fine condition.
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