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Kelly, Fred C. In Aviation Business. In his The Wright
Brothers, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1943,
pp. 268—286.
Summary of significant events in the history of the
Wright Company, 1909-1915.
Brewer, Griffith. The British Wright Company. In his
Fifty Years of Flying, London: Air League of the British
Empire, 1946, pp. 104—107.
Author s account of his participation in formation
of company in 1913.
Pin-Points in the Past. Roundel, May 1957, vol. 9, pp.
28—29, +illus.
Slightly different version published also in
American Aviation Historical Society Journal, Spring
1963, vol. 8, pp. 40—41, with title Canadians at the
Wright School.
Deals with Canadians by birth or residence who
were trained at Wright Brothers Field, Dayton, Ohio,
1913-1916, with list of the 41 whose names appear on
a commemorative plaque at the Wilbur and Orville
Wright Memorial in Dayton.
Rubenstein, Murray, and Goldman, Richard M. To Join
with the Eagles: Curtiss—Wright Aircraft, 1903-1965.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1974, 230 pp.
A history of the Curtiss—Wright Corporation; it
includes mention of the formation of the Wright
Aeronautical Corporation, its merger with other companies,
describes Wright engines, the Wright’s use of a
wind tunnel, and lists in an extensive appendix specifications
for Wright aircraft beginning with the Wright
Glider No. 1 (1900) to the Wright Model L (1915).
Tribble, Paul. Wright Connection. Alabama Heritage,
Summer 1997, no. 45, pp. 6—15, +illus.
The article describes Orville and Wilbur Wright s
creation and operation of a civilian flying school in
Montgomery, Alabama, in 1910 and 1911; briefly
sketches the history of the school under the direction
of Wright employees until 1916.
Leslie, Stuart W. Bug: Boss Kettering s Cruise
Missile, Timeline, Aug./Sep. 1991, pp. 42—51.
Recounts the effort of the Dayton Wright Airplane
Company, owned by Charles Kettering, Orville
Wright, and group of Dayton businessmen, to produce
a pilotless aircraft for use as a flying bomb. It was
called the Liberty Eagle but was known as the Bug.
This cruise missile was produced in small numbers
but was never used in combat.
Wright–Smithsonian Controversy
100 Wilbur & Orville Wright
Bilstein, Roger E. American Aerospace Industry; From
Workshop to Global Enterprise. New York: Twayne
Publisher, 1996, 280 pp. [Twayne s Evolution of Modern
Business series.]
Includes the Wright brothers especially in chapter
1, The Flamboyant Years, 1900-1919 as well as
the Wright Aeronautical Corporation and the
Curtiss—Wright Corporation. Also provides bibliographical
notes, a selected bibliography, and an index.
Eltscher, Louis R., and Young, Edward M.
Curtiss—Wright: Greatness and Decline. New York:
Twayne Publishers, 1998, 213 pp.
A history of the Curtiss—Wright Corporation and its
predecessors, within the context of industrial aviation,
beginning with the pre—World War I era to 1990.
Bibliographical references, pp. 179—201.
Wright—Smithsonian
Controversy
The Langley Medal. In Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1910, Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1911, pp. 23—24.
Brief note on awarding of the Langley Medal to the
Wrights. Orville Wright has stated (in Why the 1903
Wright Airplane Is Sent to a British Museum, U.S.
Air Services, March 1928) that the Smithsonian
Institution here misrepresented Wilbur s remarks on
that occasion by attributing to him a statement used in
a different connection at another time, viz, in his letter,
November 8, 1906, to Octave Chanute, who quoted
it in his Langley Memorial Address of December 3,
1906.
Original Langley Machine Flies. Aeronautics, New
York, May 30, 1914, vol. 14, pp. 148—150, +illus.
Describes original Langley machine shipped from
the Smithsonian Institution to Hammondsport, New
York, for testing to determine whether it was capable
of flight. Report states that it was reassembled, fitted
with three pontoons, and flown with the original
engine for a short distance, May 28.
Curtiss to Test Original Langley Plane. Aero and Hydro,
May 30, 1914, vol. 8, pp. 105—106.
Note on preparations for test flights over Lake
Keuka, Hammondsport, New York
Proves Langley s First Practical Aeroplane. Aero and
Hydro, June 6, 1914, vol. 8, pp. 117—118, +illus.
Includes account of reported flight of May 28 with