Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

sage to Orville Wright and author s statement urging
that the President should take initiative in making
arrangements for the early return of the Wright 1903
plane.
Start Drive to Bring World s First Plane Back to
America. Contact, Jan. 2/9, 1937, vol. 3, no. 11, p. 15,
+illus.
Proposed movement by magazine Contact to bring
the Wright 1903 plane back to America, to be
launched January 9 at the Philadelphia Air Show.
Further accounts: Jan. 28/Feb. 6, p. 3; Feb. 13/20, p.
3, 18; Mar. 13/20, p. 3; Feb. 12, 1938, pp. 11, 20; Feb.
26, p. 11.
Studer, Clara. Summer of 1914. In her Sky Storming
Yankee; the Life of Glenn Curtiss, New York: Stackpole
Sons, 1937, pp. 317—336.
Pages 322—326 refer to Curtiss role in testing of
Langley machine.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Joint Resolution to Provide for
the Safekeeping and Exhibit of the Airplane Used by the
Wright Brothers in Making the First Successful Airplane
Flight in History. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1937, 2 pp. (75th Congress, 2d Session.
Senate. J. Res. 237).
Introduced by Mr. Robert Reynolds, of North
Carolina, November 16, 1937, and referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs. Provides for $50,000
appropriation to be used to develop suitable site at
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Seek Wright Ship. National Air News, July 20, 1938,
vol. 2, no. 29, p. 2, col. 5.
Reference to the formation of the Association of
Men with Wings, chartered for the purpose of bringing
the Wright 1903 aeroplane back to the United
States from London.
[Findley, Earl N.] Why Not an Association to Get a
Custodian for Our National Museum? U.S. Air Services,
Aug. 1938, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 29, 31.
Cites popular ignorance of reasons why the Wright
1903 aeroplane was sent abroad.
Kalb, Karl P. Why the Kitty Hawk Plane May Stay in
England. Liberty, Aug. 6, 1938, vol. 15, no. 32, p. 52.
Take It and Welcome. Aeroplane, Aug. 17, 1938, vol. 55,
p. 94.
Editorial comment on formation of Association of
Men with Wings. Minimizes importance of the Wright
1903 machine in the Science Museum.
Wright–Smithsonian Controversy
[Findley, Earl N.] Airmen Move to Effect Return of
Wright Plane from England. U.S. Air Services, Sept.
1938, vol. 23, no. 9, p. 30.
Brief account of Association of Men with Wings,
Inc. organized August 4. Includes text of petition
addressed to Chief Justice Taft as Chancellor of the
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution asking
that the Museum change certain inaccuracies in
the records relative to the building and flying of the
first aeroplane.
Is Paramount Financing Assoc. of Men with Wings? It s
Your Guess Now. American Aviation, Sept. 1, 1938, vol.
2, no 7, p. 11.
States that Paramount Pictures put up $25,000 for
the promotion of the organization.
Goldstrom, John. Bring Back Our Winged Exile. An
Open Letter to President Roosevelt on the Kitty Hawk
Plane. Liberty, Sept. 3, 1938, vol. 15, no. 36, p. 56.
Paramount Wonders Why the Secrecy about Its
Financing Men with Wings. American Aviation, Oct. 1,
1938, vol. 2, no. 9, p. 10.
Shades of Justice! The CAA Snubs the Smithsonian,
Recognizes Wright Ship. American Aviation, Nov. 1,
1938, vol. 2, no. 11, p. 3.
Gray, Jack Stearns. Lest We Forget. In her Up ; a
True Story of Aviation, Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah
Publishing House, Inc., 1938, pp. 189—193.
Plea for the return of the Wright plane.
U.S. Congress. House. Joint Resolution for the Return of
the Wright Airplane to the United States of America, to
be Placed on Permanent Exhibition, under such
Conditions as may be Jointly Approved by Mr. Wright
and the Congress. July 10, 1940. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1940, 2 pp. (76th Congress,
3d Session. House. J. Res. 584).
Introduced by Harry R. Sheppard of California;
referred to the Committee on the Library.
Sheppard, Harry R. Return of the Wright Airplane to the
United States. Extension of Remarks July 10, 1940.
Congressional Record, July 10, 1940, vol. 86, appendix,
p. 4418.
Remarks made in connection with the introduction
of the author s resolution in Congress. See above.
Hatch, Alden. [Testing of Langley Machine.] In his
Glenn Curtiss; Pioneer of Naval Aviation, New York:
Julian Messner, Inc., 1942, pp. 237—241.
Brief account of Hammondsport trials.
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