• A group of men standing in a line next to each other.
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    Orville (with goggles) stands with exhibition team members (from left) A. L. Welsh, Spencer Crane, Walter Brookins, James Davis, and Arch Hoxsey. Modest by nature, the Wright brothers were never comfortable showing off in the air. Still, they followed Aviator Glenn Curtiss’s lead and fielded their own exhibition team as a way to profit from building airplanes.

     

  • A group of men standing in a line next to each other.

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