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U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs.
First Heavier-than-Air Flying Machine. Hearing before
Subcommittee No. 8 April 27, 1928. Statements of
Hon. Roy G. Fitzgerald, C. G. Abbot, Secretary
Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1928, 56 pp.
Extensive discussion of points at issue with pertinent
statements and documents introduced into the record.
Dacey, Norman F. The Man Who Successfully Flew the
Langley Plane Speaks Up. Air Travel News, May 1928,
vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 11—12, 49.
Claim is made that Walter Johnson flew the
Langley machine at Hammondsport without mechanical
changes.
Abbot, Charles G. Letter to the Editor. Journal of the
Royal Aeronautical Society, June 1928, vol. 32, pp.
422—423.
Letter of April 27 offering further clarification of
issues and facts discussed in the Journal for April
1928.
Hall, Norman A. Langley or Wright? The Facts about the
Famous Controversy. Liberty, July 28, 1928, vol. 5, no.
30, pp. 68—70, +illus.
Popular presentation of issues in controversy.
Shepherd, William G. Bring Home the Wright Plane.
Collier s, Sept. 22, 1928, vol. 82, pp. 8—9, 38, 40, +illus.
Summary of points at issue in controversy.
Abbot, Charles G. The Relations between the
Smithsonian and the Wright Brothers. Washington, D.C.:
The Smithsonian Institution, September 29, 1928, 27 pp.
(Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 81, no. 5).
Also issued as Smithsonian Publication 2977.
Effort by the Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution to clarify the controversy and to correct
errors and statements previously made. Renews invitation
of March 4, 1928, to Orville Wright to deposit
Kitty Hawk aeroplane in the United States National
Museum.
Smithsonian Institution and Mr. Orville Wright. Science,
Oct. 5, 1928, vol. 24, pp. 316—317.
Summarizes recent statement by Charles G. Abbot.
Shepherd, William G. The Road to Justice. Collier s,
Dec. 8, 1928, vol. 82, pp. 28, 46.
Elaboration of his previous article on the controversy
in the September 22 issue of this journal.
The Wright Brothers and Langley s Aeroplanes. Nature,
Dec. 15, 1928, vol. 122, p. 930.
Wright–Smithsonian Controversy
104 Wilbur & Orville Wright
Twenty-Five Years of Flight. Nation, Dec. 19, 1928, vol.
127, p. 674.
Editorial comment on Secretary Abbot s statement
of September 29.
Arnold, Henry H. Who Flew First? Modern Mechanics
and Inventions Flying Manual, 1929, pp. 6—9, +illus.
Author contends that the Wrights were first to fly.
Goldstrom, John. The Wright—Smithsonian Dispute. In
his A Narrative History of Aviation, New York: The
Macmillan Company, 1930, pp. 46—54.
Summary of controversy to date.
The Government Denies Recognition to Wright and to
North Carolina for First Flight. Chapel Hill Weekly. Jan.
27, 1933. vol. 10, no. 45. pp. 1, 2.
Based on article in U.S. Air Services, March 1928.
[Findley, Earl N.] Smithsonian ad Nauseam. U.S. Air
Services, Feb. 1933, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 6—7.
Editorial criticizing statements about Langley and
the Wrights appearing in Charles G. Abbot s Great
Inventions, published 1932 as volume 12 of the
Smithsonian Scientific Series.
The Change of the Label. Chapel Hill Weekly, Feb. 10,
1933, vol. 10, no. 47, p. 21.
Editorial comment.
[Findley, Earl N.] Will 1934 See the 1903 Machine Back
Home? U.S. Air Services, Jan. 1934, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 9.
Brief note concerning the proposed appointment of
a committee of unbiased experts to decide the controversy
on its merits.
Return the Wright Plane. National Aeronautic Magazine,
Oct. 1934, vol. 12, no. 10, p. 16.
Text of resolution adopted by the Thirteenth Annual
Convention of the National Aeronautic Association,
October 11-13, 1934. Provides for the appointment of
a committee to confer with Orville with a view to
securing the return of the Wright 1903 plane to the
United States.
Loening, Grover. Labels and Labels. In his Our Wings
Grow Faster, Garden City, New York: Doubleday,
Doran & Co., Inc., 1935, pp. 184—185.
Author s account of his efforts to settle the controversy.
[Findley, Earl N.] Why Not Fix What Is Wrong? U.S. Air
Services, Jan. 1937, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 11.
Note on thirty-third anniversary celebration of first
flight, including President Roosevelt s goodwill mes-