The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright,9781588341426

The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright

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ISBN13: 9781588341426
ISBN10: 1588341429
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-17
Publisher(s): Smithsonian Books
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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 and the author of Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990). He lives in Virginia.
Rick Young is co-founder of the Wright Experience, an organization that researches, designs, constructs, and tests reproductions of the Wright brothers' aircraft. He also lives in Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(10)
1 THE AGE OF THE FLYING MACHINE HAD COME"
The Wrights Tell Their Story
11(96)
1. Statement by the Wright Brothers to the Associated Press
14(2)
2. Statement to the Aero Club of America
16(3)
3. Our Recent Experiments in North Carolina
19(2)
4. Our Aeroplane Tests at Kitty Hawk
21(3)
5. The Wright Brothers' Aeroplane
24(11)
6. Ohio in Aviation
35(1)
7. Presentation of Langley Medal to Messrs. Wilbur and Orville Wright
36(1)
8. The Earliest Wright Flights-A Letter from Wilbur Wright
37(2)
9. A Letter from Orville and Wilbur Wright
39(1)
10. How We Made the First Flight
40(9)
11. My Narrowest Escape in the Air
49(2)
12. How I Learned to Fly
51(6)
13. The Work of Orville Wright
57(1)
14. Wright's First Statement since the War
58(1)
15. Orville Wright: An Interview
59(4)
16. Our Early Flying Machine Developments
63(3)
17. The Wright-Langley Controversy: Both Sides Presented by Orville Wright and Dr. Walcott
66(6)
18. Winged Pioneers: A Thumbnail History of Aviation by the Men Who Have Made It
72(1)
19. Why the 1903 Wright Airplane Is Sent to a British Museum
73(3)
20. Orville Wright Declines-Naturally: With the Smithsonian These Days Life Is Just One Statement-and Label-after Another
76(3)
21. Wilbur Wright
79(2)
22. What's Going On Here? An Answer by Our Traveling Reporter, Fred C. Kelly
81(3)
23. Our Life in Camp at Kitty Hawk
84(8)
24. Orville Wright Ordered Return to America of Original Airplane
92(6)
25. Orville Wright-"First Man to Fly"
98(9)
2 SOME AERONAUTICAL EXPERIMENTS"
Technical Articles by the Wrights
107(56)
26. Angle of Incidence
109(3)
27. The Horizontal Position during Gliding Flight
112(2)
28. Some Aeronautical Experiments
114(18)
29. Experiments and Observations in Soaring Flight
132(15)
30. The Relations of Weight, Speed, and Power of Flyers
147(1)
31. Inverted Aeroplane Stresses
148(1)
32. Stability of Aeroplanes
149(8)
33. Possibilities of Soaring Flight
157(6)
3 THE GREATEST OF THE PRECURSORS"
The Wrights Assess Their Contemporaries
163(28)
34. He Can Half Fly
165(1)
35. Air Ship Soon to Fly
166(1)
36. Wright's Statement Concerning Johnstone's Fatal Fall
167(1)
37. The Life and Work of Octave Chanute
168(3)
38. What Mouillard Did
171(5)
39. What Clement Ader Did
176(8)
40. Otto Lilienthal
184(4)
41. The Mythical Whitehead Flight
188(3)
4 "IT IS NEVER SAFE TO PROPHESY"
The Wrights on the Future of Aviation
191(80)
42. Flying as a Sport-Its Possibilities
194(2)
43. The Aeroplane: What It Will Be Like in Five Years Time, Opinions of Prominent Aeroists
196(4)
44. The Future of the Aeroplane
200(1)
45. Flying from London to Manchester
201(4)
46. Airship Safe: Air Motoring No More Dangerous Than Land Motoring
205(1)
47. A Talk with Wilbur Wright
206(2)
48. W. Wright on Altitude and Fancy Flying
208(2)
49. In Honor of the Army and Aviation
210(1)
50. Wright Considers High Speed Too Dangerous
211(2)
51. Wilbur Wright Favors Reliability Tests
213(1)
52. Wright Finds Ocean Crossing Risky Now
213(1)
53. Flying Machines and the War
214(5)
54. 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
219(2)
55. The Safe and Useful Aeroplane
221(10)
56. Orville Wright Says 10,000 Aeroplanes Would End the War within Ten Weeks
231(7)
57. Says Aircraft Will Win War
238(1)
58. Wright to Make Aeros for Commercial Use
238(1)
59. The Future of Civil Flying
239(3)
60. Sporting Future of the Airplane: Reduced Landing Speeds an Essential Factor
242(2)
61. The Commercial Airplane
244(2)
62. Low-Speed Landing Is First Need of Aviation
246(3)
63. Inventor of the Airplane Details Some of Early Experiences in Radio Message to World
249(3)
64. Orville Wright Forecasts Aircraft Expansion
252(4)
65. What Is Ahead in Aviation: America's Foremost Leaders in Many Branches of Flying Give Remarkable Forecasts of the Future
256(1)
66. Sun Power Motor
257(1)
67. Orville Wright Foresees Great Progress in Next Decade
258(3)
68. Orville Wright Takes Look Back on 40 Years since First Flight; Despite Air War, Has No Regrets
261(6)
69. Wright Favors Free Competition on Postwar Foreign Air Routes
267(4)
APPENDIX "THEN WE QUIT LAUGHING"
Witnesses to the Birth of Flight
271(30)
70. Then We Quit Laughing
274(4)
71. With the Wrights at Kitty Hawk: Anniversary of First Flight Twenty-five Years Ago
278(5)
72. I Was Host to Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
283(2)
73. My Story of the Wright Brothers
285(11)
74. The First Airplane-After 1903
296(5)
Bibliography 301(6)
Photography Credits 307(2)
Index 309

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