Caption on verso: "Cygnet No. 2. A tetrahedral kite, designed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, built at Baddeck, Novia Scotia [sic], and contains 3960 tetrahedral cells, covered with red silk and driven with the same motor as the Silver Dart. J. A. D. McCurdy, aviator, February 22, 1909."
Stamped on verso: "Photo by / H. M. Benner / Hammondsport, N. Y."
]]>Photograph of John A. McCurdy seated at the controls of the Aerial Experiment Association's Cygnet II kite, Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia, circa February 1909.
Caption on verso: "Cygnet No. 2. A tetrahedral kite, designed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, built at Baddeck, Novia Scotia [sic], and contains 3960 tetrahedral cells, covered with red silk and driven with the same motor as the Silver Dart. J. A. D. McCurdy, aviator, February 22, 1909."
Stamped on verso: "Photo by / H. M. Benner / Hammondsport, N. Y."
Inscription: "Side view of Cygnet II, taken on ice in Baddeck Bay, Feb. 25, 1909."
Caption from bulletin: "31. Drome No. 5, Bell's Cygnet II, on the ice in Baddeck Bay, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Feb. 22, 1909. Side-view showing the hollow construction."
Photograph from a bulletin titled "Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association," a souvenir volume consisting of eight (8) pages of text and thirty-one (31) photographs illustrating the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, issued April 12, 1909.
]]>Photograph of the Aerial Experiment Association's Cygnet II kite on the ice at Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia, February 25, 1909.
Inscription: "Side view of Cygnet II, taken on ice in Baddeck Bay, Feb. 25, 1909."
Caption from bulletin: "31. Drome No. 5, Bell's Cygnet II, on the ice in Baddeck Bay, near Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Feb. 22, 1909. Side-view showing the hollow construction."
Photograph from a bulletin titled "Bulletins of the Aerial Experiment Association," a souvenir volume consisting of eight (8) pages of text and thirty-one (31) photographs illustrating the work of the Aerial Experiment Association, issued April 12, 1909.