One of my favorite historical photos. Orville Wright on his final flight in 1944. He died in 1947. He's in the copilot's seat of an Army Air Corps Lockheed C-69 Constellation transport, probably one of the most complex and largest aircraft at that time. Think of it, it had only been just over 40 years since he and Wilbur had first flown at Kitty Hawk and there's Orville Wright thundering along in a giant 4-engined globe-circling transport. Only 25 more years from this photo until Neil Armstrong would be standing on the moon.
Wilbur Wright died in 1912 from typhoid fever.
Photo of a C-69, c1944:
