| Since the pilot of the first airplane flight was Orville, then this fellow must be Wilbur. He was the brother who watched the first flight. Wilbur, the Gnome, is holding a paper airplane, leaning back to watch Orville already in flight. On the base is a buckeye, the symbol for his home State of Ohio. The beetle, at his feet, is a natural means of flight. The sea shells, in honor of Kitty Hawk, N. C. are in the form of a dragonfly. The spiral sea shell copies the design Leonardo Da Vinci drew for a flying machine. The lucky Indian head penny is dated 1903, the year of the Wright Brothers' great flight. |