America’s first pilots took to the air in fragile aircraft made of wood, wire and fabric. In those early days of flight, linen or muslin was used to cover the wings of aircraft. The original wing fabric we have is over 100 years old – from seven famous aircraft in the collection of the Smithsonian. It was preserved during restorations by the Smithsonian and sold to their museum patrons who wanted to own a piece of aviation history. The fabric that remained was then archived and is now available once again.
We are offering 4-square-inch sections of that original fabric with our museum-quality aviation relic prints. Included with each is a Certificate of Authenticity signed by an officer of the National Air and Space Museum.
One of our 15″ x 20″ relic prints features a section of the original wing fabric from a biplane built by the Orville and Wilbur Wright – the 1911 Wright Vin Fiz – famous as the first to fly coast-to-coast with 70 landings and 12 crashes en route from New York to California.
Another relic print with original wing fabric features the Albatros D.Va – an open-cockpit fighter aircraft flown by the Germans in World War One. Manfred von Richthofen – the “Red Baron” – scored most of his 80 victories in an Albatros.
Or choose wing fabric from the Douglas World Cruiser – the U.S. Army Air Service aircraft that made the first flight around the world in 1924. These pages tell the amazing stories of these seven “aeroplanes” and the remarkable men who flew them.
We invite you to go back in time with us and own a piece of American aviation history – instead of looking at it from behind the velvet rope in a museum.
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a weekend aviation camp for kids. KEEPING AVIATION HISTORY ALIVE!
