The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright

by Jakab, Peter L.; Wright, Orville; Wright, Wilbur; Young, Rick

ISBN13: 9781560989387

ISBN10: 1560989386

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2000-05-01

Publisher(s): Smithsonian Inst Pr

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Summary

For the first time, nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings are brought together in a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their aircraft, early test flights, and camp life at Kitty Hawk. Because Wilbur's sudden death in 1912 ended any hope that the Wrights would produce a book of their own, the articles collected in this volume are their only published words.

Author Biography

Peter L. Jakab is curator of early aviation at the National Air and Space Museum Rick Young is co-founder of the Wright Experience, an organization that researches, designs, constructs, and tests reproductions of the Wright brothers' aircraft

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
"The Age of the Flying Machine Had Come" The Wrights Tell Their Story	p. 11
Statement by the Wright Brothers to the Associated Press	p. 14
Statement to the Aero Club of America	p. 16
Our Recent Experiments in North Carolina	p. 19
Our Aeroplane Tests at Kitty Hawk	p. 21
The Wright Brothers' Aeroplane	p. 24
Ohio in Aviation	p. 35
Presentation of Langley Medal to Messrs. Wilbur and Orville Wright	p. 36
The Earliest Wright Flights--A Letter from Wilbur Wright	p. 37
A Letter from Orville and Wilbur Wright	p. 39
How We Made the First Flight	p. 40
My Narrowest Escape in the Air	p. 49
How I Learned to Fly	p. 51
The Work of Orville Wright	p. 57
Wright's First Statement since the War	p. 58
Orville Wright: An Interview	p. 59
Our Early Flying Machine Developments	p. 63
The Wright-Langley Controversy: Both Sides Presented by Orville Wright and Dr. Walcott	p. 66
Winged Pioneers: A Thumbnail History of Aviation by the Men Who Have Made It	p. 72
Why the 1903 Wright Airplane Is Sent to a British Museum	p. 73
Orville Wright Declines--Naturally: With the Smithsonian These Days Life Is Just One Statement--and Label--after Another	p. 76
Wilbur Wright	p. 79
What's Going On Here? An Answer by Our Traveling Reporter, Fred C. Kelly	p. 81
Our Life in Camp at Kitty Hawk	p. 84
Orville Wright Ordered Return to America of Original Airplane	p. 92
Orville Wright--"First Man to Fly"	p. 98
"Some Aeronautical Experiments" Technical Articles by the Wrights	p. 107
Angle of Incidence	p. 109
The Horizontal Position during Gliding Flight	p. 112
Some Aeronautical Experiments	p. 114
Experiments and Observations in Soaring Flight	p. 132
The Relations of Weight, Speed, and Power of Flyers	p. 147
Inverted Aeroplane Stresses	p. 148
Stability of Aeroplanes	p. 149
Possibilities of Soaring Flight	p. 157
"The Greatest of the Precursors" The Wrights Assess Their Contemporaries	p. 163
He Can Half Fly	p. 165
Air Ship Soon to Fly	p. 166
Wright's Statement Concerning Johnstone's Fatal Fall	p. 167
The Life and Work of Octave Chanute	p. 168
What Mouillard Did	p. 171
What Clement Ader Did	p. 176
Otto Lilienthal	p. 184
The Mythical Whitehead Flight	p. 188
"It is Never Safe to Prophesy" The Wrights on the Future of Aviation	p. 191
Flying as a Sport--Its Possibilities	p. 194
The Aeroplane: What It Will Be Like in Five Years Time, Opinions of Prominent Aeroists	p. 196
The Future of the Aeroplane	p. 200
Flying from London to Manchester	p. 201
Airship Safe: Air Motoring No More Dangerous Than Land Motoring	p. 205
A Talk with Wilbur Wright	p. 206
W. Wright on Altitude and Fancy Flying	p. 208
In Honor of the Army and Aviation	p. 210
Wright Considers High Speed Too Dangerous	p. 211
Wilbur Wright Favors Reliability Tests	p. 213
Wright Finds Ocean Crossing Risky Now	p. 213
Flying Machines and the War	p. 214
Address by Orville Wright at the National Parks Conference, under the Auspices of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 5, the Day's Program Being Devoted to the Subject of "Motor Travel to the Parks," and under the Direction of the American Automobile Association	p. 219
The Safe and Useful Aeroplane	p. 221
Orville Wright Says 10,000 Aeroplanes Would End the War within Ten Weeks	p. 231
Says Aircraft Will Win War	p. 238
Wright to Make Aeros for Commercial Use	p. 238
The Future of Civil Flying	p. 239
Sporting Future of the Airplane: Reduced Landing Speeds an Essential Factor	p. 242
The Commercial Airplane	p. 244
Low-Speed Landing Is First Need of Aviation	p. 246
Inventor of the Airplane Details Some of Early Experiences in Radio Message to World	p. 247
Orville Wright Forecasts Aircraft Expansion	p. 252
What Is Ahead in Aviation: America's Foremost Leaders in Many Branches of Flying Give Remarkable Forecasts of the Future	p. 256
Sun Power Motor	p. 257
Orville Wright Foresees Great Progress in Next Decade	p. 258
Orville Wright Takes Look Back on 40 Years since First Flight; Despite Air War, Has No Regrets	p. 261
Wright Favors Free Competition on Postwar Foreign Air Routes	p. 267
"Then We Quit Laughing" Witnesses to the Birth of Flight	p. 271
Then We Quit Laughing	p. 274
With the Wrights at Kitty Hawk: Anniversary of First Flight Twenty-five Years Ago	p. 278
I Was Host to Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk	p. 283
My Story of the Wright Brothers	p. 285
The First Airplane--After 1903	p. 296
Bibliography	p. 301
Photography Credits	p. 307
Index	p. 309
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