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York. [Hammondsport, New York: Jan. 11, 1915], 3 pp.
[typescript]
Testimony of photographer giving details of photographs
taken by him of the Langley flying machine on
Lake Keuka, September 17 and 19, 1914.
Wehman, Henry T. Affidavit of Henry T. Wehman. In
The Wright Company, Against the Curtiss Aeroplane
Company. United States District Court, Western District
Court of New York. [Hammondsport, New York: Jan. 11,
1915], 4 pp. [typescript]
Testimony by the official Curtiss Aeroplane
Company photographer giving details on photographs
taken by him of the Langley flying machine on Lake
Keuka, June 2, September 17 and 18, and October 1,
1914.
Zahm, Albert F. Affidavit of Dr. Albert F. Zahm. In The
Wright Company, Against the Curtiss Aeroplane
Company. United States District Court, Western District
of New York. [Hammondsport, New York: Jan. 11,
1915], 13 pp. and 11 photos. [typescript]
Extensive testimony on the assembling of the
Langley flying machine and its testing on Lake
Keuka, May-October 1914, by the official Recorder of
the Smithsonian Institution s Langley Aerodynamical
Laboratory.
Doherty, William E. Affidavit of William Elwood
Doherty. In The Wright Company, Against the Curtiss
Aeroplane Company. United States District Court,
Western District of New York. [Hammondsport, New
York: Jan. 12, 1915, 3 pp. [typescript]
Testimony on the performance of the Langley flying
machine by the pilot who flew it on Lake Keuka,
June and September 1914.
[Statements on Flights of the Langley Aeroplane at
Hammondsport, May 1914.] In Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1914, Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1915, pp. 4, 9.
Accuracy of this and similar statements by the
Smithsonian Institution was later contested by Orville
Wright.
Zahm, Albert F. The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane
Capable of Sustained Free Flight Langley s Success as
a Pioneer in Aviation. In Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1914, Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1915, pp. 217—222, +illus.
Also published in Zahm, Albert F., Aeronautical
Papers, 1885-1945, Notre Dame, Indiana: University
of Notre Dame, 1950, vol. 1, pp. 401—412.
Official report on the Hammondsport flights by the
delegated observer of the Smithsonian Institution, the
Wright–Smithsonian Controversy
102 Wilbur & Orville Wright
Recorder of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory.
Accuracy of this report was later challenged by
Orville Wright.
Eisenlohr, Roland. Neuere Versuche von Curtiss mit
dem Langley-Tandemeindecker. Motorwagen, July 31,
1916, vol. 19, pp. 295—298.
The Title to an Honor. Collier s, Jan. 6, 1917, vol. 58, p.
11.
Reprinted with comment by A. I. Root, Gleanings
in Bee Culture, Apr. 1917, vol. 44, pp. 300—301.
Editorial taking exception to an unidentified statement
reportedly made by Dr. Charles W. Eliot, ascribing
the invention of the aeroplane to Langley.
Butman, Carl H. Langley s Flying Machine. Aviation,
Nov. 15, 1917, vol. 3, pp. 527—531, +illus.
Includes account of the Hammondsport flights by a
former Smithsonian staff member.
[Statements on Installation of Langley Machine of 1903
as Exhibit in National Museum.] In Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1918, Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1920, pp. 3, 28, 114.
Orville Wright challenged the claim that this was
the first heavier-than-air man-carrying machine built.
Brewer, Griffith. Aviation s Greatest Controversy. U.S.
Air Services, Oct. 1921, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 9—17.
Also published with general discussion and comments
by Dr. C. D. Walcott, Dr. A. F. Zahm, C. M.
Manly, and Glenn H. Curtiss, in The Aeronautical
Journal, Dec. 1921, vol. 25, pp. 620—664; abstracted
in Flight, Oct. 27, 1921, vol. 13, pp. 703—704; summarized
and discussed in Aviation, Nov. 7, 1921, vol.
11, pp. 532—535; in U.S. Congress. House. Committee
on Military Affairs. First Heavier-than-Air Flying
Machine. Hearing April 27, 1928, Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1928, pp. 15—25.
Paper read by Griffith Brewer before the Royal
Society of Arts, October 20, submitting evidence to
prove that the Langley machine was not capable of
sustained free flight and was not successfully flown at
Hammondsport, New York, on June 2, 1914.
Brewer, Griffith. Letter to the Editor. The Journal of the
Royal Aeronautical Society, Mar. 1927, vol. 31, pp.
173—174.
Calls attention to change in label on Langley
machine in Smithsonian Institution but states that it is
still misleading and incorrect.
[Grey], C. G. The Original Wright Biplane. Aeroplane,
Feb. 8, 1928, vol. 34, p. 162.