[Aerial Experiment Association Aerodrome No. 1 "Red Wing" in flight]

Photograph of the Aerial Experiment Association's Aerodrome No. 1 "Red Wing" aircraft, piloted by Frederick Walker Baldwin, in flight over an iced-over Keuka Lake, New York, March 17, 1908. The captions note that this photo was taken just before the aircraft crashed.

Inscription: "Drome No. 1 Selfridge's Red Wing flying over the ice on Lake Keuka near Hammondsport, N.Y. carrying Mr. F. W. Baldwin as aviator on March 17, 1908. Taken immediately before catastrophe which wrecked the machine but left the aviator uninjured."

Caption from bulletin: "13. Drome No. 1, Selfridge's Red Wing, making its last flight over the ice on Lake Keuka, near Hammondsport, N.Y., carrying Mr. F.W. Baldwin, Chief Engineer of the A.E.A., as Aviator March 17, 1908. The photograph shows a lack of lateral stability in the machine. It was tilted over on one side and is sliding down side-ways towards the ice."

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.