Wilbur Wright

WILBUR IN ITALY
1908 & 1909

L'UOMO - UCCELLO
8/15/1908
Il Sig. Wilbur Wright in volo sopra la piazza d'armi di Hunaudières a Mans.

THE BIRD MAN
Mr. Wilbur Wright in flight over the parade ground of Hunaudières at Mans (France).
from the Library of
Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura – Livorno
(Renzo Pratesi director and Filippo Lenzi archivist)
ontributed by Giovanni Giorgetti, 12-4-10

L'ILLUSTRATION

La préparation du lancament.
L'aeroplane étant posé sur l'extrémité d'un rail de bois, on hisse en haut d'un pylóne placé en arriére un poids de 700 kilos lequel en retombant, par le moyen d'un retour de poulie.
tire violemment en avant l'aéroplane qui, projet à l'autre bout du rail, s'envole.

The airplane is landed on the tip of a wooden rail, is hoisted on top of a tower placed back a weight of 700 kilos which the outfall by means of a return pulley.
violently pulls the airplane forward that draft to the other end of the rail, flies away.

from the Library of
Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura – Livorno
(Renzo Pratesi director and Filippo Lenzi archivist)

RE ALFONSO XIII SULL'AEROPLANO DI WILBUR WRIGHT A PAU

From
L'ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANA
(THE ITALIAN ILLUSTRATION)
an Italian weekly magazine of April 25 1909.
Rome February 28 1909; The king of Spain Alphonce XIII with Wilbur Wright at Pau (France) on February 20 1909.
Italian:
RE ALFONSO XIII SULL'AEROPLANO DI WILBUR WRIGHT A PAU
(fot. Rol).
Il 28 febbraio Re Alfonso XIII si recò a Pont Long presso Pau (Francia), col più vivo desiderio di fare un'ascensione coll'apparecchio dei fratelli Wright: Prima di partire da San Sebastiano (Spagna) egli aveva dovuto fare alla Regina Madre la promessa formale che si sarebbe astenuto dal partecipare all'ascensione. Il Re si limitò a sedersi nell'apparecchio quando si trovava a terra, e in tale momento fu presa la foto che qui riproduciamo. I re, come si vede, sono meno liberi dei ministri: infatti il ministro dell'istruzione pubblica, Barthou, fece con Wilbur Wright il 22 un bellissimo volo delizioso, che il re Alfonso gli avrà certamente invidiato.

English
KING ALPHONSE XIII ON THE AIRPLANE OF WILBUR WRIGHT AT PAU (photo Rol).
On February 28, King Alphonse XIII went to Pont Long near Pau (France), with the keen desire to make a flight in the plane of the Wright brothers. Before leaving St. Sebastian (Spain), he had had to make a formal promise to the Queen Mother that he would abstain from participating in the flight. The King restrained himself to only sittting on the plane when it was on the ground and the photo that we are printing here was taken in that moment. Kings, as we can see, are less free than the ministers: in fact the Minister of State Education, Bartkou, flew off with Wilbur Wright, a delightful, wonderful flight, that King Alphonse would certainly have envied.
Photo, text & translation courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 6-17-07

ROMA - I VOLI DI WILBUR WRIGHT A CENTOCELLE

Wilbur Wright lavora al suo aereoplano
"Wilbur Wright is working on his airplane"

Tenente Calderara Tenente Savoja
Gli Italiani di Wilbur Wright

From
L'ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANA
(THE ITALIAN ILLUSTRATION)
an Italian weekly magazine of April 25 1909.
Rome April 16 1909; Wilbur Wright at the Centocelle field with his first Italian cadets the liutenants Umberto Savoja and Mario Calderara.
Courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 6-3-07

Sidney Sonnino al momento del suo primo volo con Wilbur Wright

From
L'ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANA
(THE ITALIAN ILLUSTRATION)
an Italian weekly magazine of April 25 1909.
Rome April 16 1909; Wilbur Wright at the Centocelle field with Sidney Sonnino. Sidney Sonnino was an important Italian politician, several times head of government.
Courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 6-3-07

Una Caracatura di Wilbur Wright.

From
L'ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANA
(THE ITALIAN ILLUSTRATION)
an Italian weekly magazine of October 4 1908
Courtesy of Giovanni Giorgetti, 6-14-07

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