Financed by his father, in 1908 he designed and built his own plane, modeled after the Wright Flyer.

The story of flight begins more than a century before the 1903 Wright Flyer, and goes on some decades with rotorcraft.

Annakin had apparently expressed a desire to have a Wright Flyer in the film.

It is the first fully controllable and practical version of the original 1903 Wright Flyer.

The underpowered 1903 Wright Flyer was just barely capable of flight.

The original Wright Flyer, which made the first flight in 1903.

He was one of the first civilians to purchase a Wright Flyer.

The Wright Flyer of 1903, by comparison, took weeks.

There were unsuccessful attempts in 1999 and 2003 to add the Wright Flyer to the seal.

He later restored the Wright Flyer for display in the Smithsonian.