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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A Wright Military Flyer airplane flies in the skies above a field with buildings in the background.

Military Flyer Illustration

This image -- original date and photographer unknown -- is of one of the Wright Brothers’ planes being flown over what was then Fort Myer -- now the Fort Myer portion of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia. The color photograph overlaid on it was taken in a similar location near the edge of Summerall Field and Building 417, March 16, 2015.

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