Smithsonian Report, 1959—Loening PLATE 
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TYPICAL EARLY BIPLANES 
1, Wright brothers’ ‘‘Kitty Hawk” biplane, the world’s first successful powered and 
controlled man-carrying airplane, 1903; 2, Curtiss biplane with pusher engine, 
1908-1916, showing classical landing gear to come into wide use 30 years later; 
3, Douglas World Cruiser, typical tractor biplane, 1924; 4, Loening amphibian 
biplane, Pan American flight, 1926-27. 
