Display Status:
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Collection Item Summary:
Composite image of sketches by Sir George Cayley copied from reproductions in book, Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, "Sir George Cayley (1773-1857)," Her Majesty's Stationery Office (London), 1968. Top to bottom: "Cayley's 1804 sketch of a model glider" page 7 (Fig. 6), "An improved fixed-wing glider, 1849" page 17 (Fig. 17), "Cayley's most advanced glider, 1853" page 21 (Fig. 20), "An 1849 triplane, tested briefly with a boy in the underslung car" page 16 (Fig. 15), and "Cayley's 1852 design for a man-carrying glider" page 19 (Fig. 18, top).
Collection Item Long Description:
Topic
- Aeronautics
- Gliding and soaring