Title: Wilbur Wright in prone position on glider just after landing, its skid marks visible behind it and, in the foreground, skid marks from a previous landing; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Title: 1901 glider being flown as a kite, Wilbur at left side, Orville at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Title: Wilbur Wright gliding, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Title: Wright brothers rebuilding their glider in a wooden shed erected in July to serve as a workshop and to house the glider in bad weather, August 1901; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Title: Orville at left wing end of upended glider, bottom view; KittyHawk, North Carolina

Title: Side view of glider flying as a kite near the ground, Wilbur at left and Orville at right, glider turned forward to right and tipped downward.

Title: Side view of Wilbur Wright piloting a glider in level flight almost overhead, moving to left, showing bottom wing and elevator.

Title: Dan Tate, at left, and Edward C. Huffaker, at right, launching the1901 glider with either Wilbur or Orville piloting.

Title: 1901 glider soaring, photograph from an out of focus, water-damaged negative.

Title: Crumpled glider wrecked by the wind on Hill of the Wreck (named after a shipwreck).

Title: Left side view of the 1900 Wright glider before installation of forward horizontal control surface, flying as a kite, tipped forward; Kitty Hawk Lifesaving Station and Weather Bureau buildings in background to the left.

Title: Left side view of glider flying as a kite, in level flight, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Title: Start of a glide; Wilbur in motion at left holding one end of glider (rebuilt with single vertical rudder), Orville lying prone in machine, and Dan Tate at right; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Title: Wilbur gliding in level flight, single rear rudder clearly visible; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Title: Close-up view of airplane, including the pilot and passenger seats.

Title: Right front view of glider in flight

Title: Glider at Kitty Hawk

Title: Side view of flight 41, showing the machine traveling to the right, with double horizontal rudder in front and double vertical rudder behind, as Orville flew 12 miles at Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio

Title: Rear view of flight 46, Orville shown flying at a high altitude over Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio.

Title: Group portrait in front of glider at Kill Devil Hill. Sitting: Horace Wright, Orville Wright, and Alexander Ogilvie; standing: Lorin Wright, and group of journalists, including Van Ness Harwood of the New York World, Berges of the American News Service, Arnold Kruckman of the New York American, Mitchell of the New York Herald, and John Mitchell of the Associated Press; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina