Early Birds

How Men Fly  1911
By Gertrude Bacon
Cassell and Company, London
paper, ink
SFO Museum
2000.160.0083
L2015.1801.007

The Romance of Aeronautics:
An Interesting Account of the Growth & Achievements of All Kinds of Aerial Craft  1912
By Charles Cyril Turner
Lippincott, Philadelphia
paper, ink
SFO Museum
2000.160.0740
L2015.1801.028

With the Airmen  1913
By Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
H. Frowde, London
paper, ink
SFO Museum
2000.160.0239
L2015.1801.050

How to Fly: or, The Conquest of the Air;
The Story of Man’s Endeavors to Fly and of the Inventions by Which He Has Succeeded  1910
By Richard Ferris
T. Nelson & Sons, New York
paper, ink
SFO Museum
2000.160.0353
L2015.1801.070

Bleriot XI monoplane model aircraft  1965
plastic, epoxy resin, metal, paint, thread
Courtesy of Jim Lund
L2015.1802.003

Fokker Spinne (Spider) monoplane model aircraft  1989
plastic, epoxy resin, metal, paint, thread
Courtesy of Jim Lund
L2015.1802.009