Comprises: A 35x32 cm. (approx. 1½x1¼") piece of coarse white linen-like fabric taken Orville and Wilbur Wright's first airplane to actually fly. Edges unevenly clipped leaving small frays. * 1x3¾" clipped signature of Orville Wright, cut from a canceled check (not dated). * And, a 1-page, 15-line autograph letter signed by the niece of Orville and Wilbur Wright, Ivonette Wright Miller (1896-1994), on her Dayton, Ohio letterhead, dated June 7, 1983, addressed to Richard Calow (of North Arlington, New Jersey), with the original mailing envelope. Ivonette's letter describes her book "Wright Reminiscences" and she writes "I enclose[d] an autograph of Orville Wright taken from a canceled check, Also a small piece of the fabric from the first plane that flew." Also, includes a photocopy from an article on Ivonette Wright Miller, signed by her, which shows a picture of her and of the Wright brothers and their winged inventions.
On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made history by becoming the to successfully sustain a controlled flight in a powered aircraft by flying their "Wright Flyer" for 12 seconds. Previously, only various types of gliding planes had been successful, but Orville and Wilbur Wrights' 1903 Kitty Hawk flight was the first ever in a propeller-driven airplane, making them the fathers of modern air travel and two of the greatest inventors of all time.