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:
Octave Chanute tests glider at Camp Chanute in sand dunes of Lake Michigan near Gary, Indiana, 1897. Top, one-quarter rear left view of glider in flight (roughly centered in image); bottom, left side view from below of glider in flight, two men in right foreground.
Collection Item Long Description:
Topic
- Aeronautics
- Gliding and soaring