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Photos by Fritz
Rethage © 2003, All rights reserved. Permission required for commercial
reproduction.
"The Wright Stuff"
Teterboro Airport
celebratating 100 years of aviation
Wright "B" Flyer re-enacts historic 1909
flight around Statue of Liberty on May 25, 2003
Radio, pedals, controls, etc
Checking and fine tuning the radio.
Installing foot pedals
Adjusting foot pedal controls
Checking controls
Checking and tightening support wires.
Although a gauge was used to check tension, the crew still walked around the aircraft and
"strummed" each and every wire by hand.
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Index
Here are about two hundred photos and movies
commemorating this historic aviation event
Photos and Stories
Taking off
custom trailer's side panels
Preparing to unload Wright "B' Flyer from custom trailer
Assembling front section
Crew before off-loading Wright "B" Flyer
Off-loading Wright "B" Flyer
Attaching the tail section
Attaching the flap
Putting sides back on custom trailer
Assembling and checking seat, pedals, controls, wires, radio, etc.
Installing propeller
Rolling Flyer out to test engine (May 24) & test flight (May
25)
Wright "B" Flyer details
[Engine][Propellers & Chain
Drive][Rigging & Wheels][Cockpit
& Controls]
Supporting operations
Various parked positions and on public display
Miscellaneous general photos
Onboard museum
Press Releases
Media Coverage
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mpeg movies
Image size: 320 x 240 -- Cameras used:
Sony F505 & F717
[Movie] Engine test on
apron -- May 25 (500k)
[Movie] Engine test on
apron #1 -- May 25 (500k)
[Movie] Engine test on
apron #2 -- May 25 (500k)
[Movie] Rolling Wright
"B" onto apron for public viewing May 26 (800k)
[Movie] Rolling Wright
"B" onto apron before starting engines (500k)
[Movie] Taxiing from apron
to ramp (1.4 meg)
[Movie] Taxiing from apron
onto ramp for test flight (1.1 meg)
[Movie] Test flight from
Meadowlands (2.5 meg)
[Movie] Taxiing on the
ramp from test flight (700k)
[Movie] Taxiing from the
ramp to the apron (1 meg)
Editors note:
Cool effect: [Play] on
media player full screen and run continuously
Editors favorite: [Taxiing
back] on ramp w/Hasbrouck Heights as the horizon
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Successful event thanks to:
Wright "B" Flyer Organization, Inventing Flight/Dayton 2003, National Park Service/Dayton, FAA, Port Authority NY/NJ, NJ
Aviation Hall of Fame, Signature
Flight Support, Paramus Flying Club, Civil Air
Patrol, Continental Trucking (Sidney, OH -Transported Trailer), Raintree County Images (Documentary Film
Makers)
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Other Aviation Hall
of Fame Photos and Stories
Open Cockpit Day: April 26, 2003 [Story]
Santa Arrives by Helicopter:
December 14, 2002 [Photos]
Tri-State Aviation Expo 2002
[Kitty Hawk Flyer] [General] [Models]
[Trucks & Cars]
Wings & Wheels Expo at Teterboro Airport on June 2nd & 3rd, 2001
[General & Military][B-17 Yankee Lady][DC-4 Spirit of Freedom]
[Various aircraft] [Antique Cars]
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Photos by Fritz Rethage © 2003, All
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