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

U.S. Congress. Senate. An Act Providing for the Erection
of a Monument on Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, Commemorative of the First Successful
Attempt in History at Power-Driven Airplane Flight.
January 11, 1927. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1927, 2 pp. (69th Congress, 2d Session.
S. 4876).
Introduced by Senator Hiram Bingham of
Connecticut; referred to the Committee on the
Library.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the Library.
Monument Commemorative of 1st Successful Attempt at
Power-Driven Airplane Flight. Report [To Accompany
S. 4876]. Submitted by Mr. Luce. February 4, 1927.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927, 1
p. (69th Congress, 2d Session. House. Report 1989).
Recommends new section in bill providing that
designs and plans of monument be subject to approval
of the Commission of Fine Arts and the Joint
Committee on the Library.
Warren, Lindsay. The Memorial in Commemoration of
the First Successful Attempt in All History at Power-
Driven Airplane Flight, Achieved by Orville Wright on
December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Speech in
the House of Representatives, Tuesday, February 8,
1927. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1927, 8 pp.
Reprinted from Congressional Record, Feb. 8,
1927, vol. 68, pp. 3281—3282.
S. 4876 an Act Providing for the Erection of a Monument
on Kill Devil Hill, at Kitty Hawk, N.C., Commemorative
of the First Successful Human Attempt at Power-Driven
Airplane Flight. Approved March 2, 1927. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927, 1 p. (Public
Law 668, 69th Congress).
Also in United States Statutes at Large, 1927-1929,
vol. 44, pp. 1264—1265.
The Memorial to the First Airplane Flight.
Congressional Record, Mar. 3, 1927, vol. 68, p. 5803.
Joint resolution by the General Assembly of North
Carolina urging Congress to erect a memorial to the
Wrights at Kitty Hawk; introduced into the record by
Mr. Warren.
Memorial to Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk. U.S. Air
Services, Sept. 1927, vol. 12, p. 40.
Brief note on the formation of the Kill Devil Hills
Memorial Association, August 16, 1927, for the purpose
of erecting a monument commemorating the first
flights of the Wrights at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Monuments and Museums
In Honor of the Wrights. Slipstream, Nov. 1927, vol. 8,
no. 11, pp. 9—10, +illus.
Editorial favoring Dayton, Ohio, over Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, as a site for Wright memorial.
Wright Memorial Site Criticized. Slipstream, Jan. 1928,
vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 7—8, +illus.
Further editorial favoring erection in Dayton of a
suitable Wright Memorial for housing the first Wright
machine and other Wright trophies.
Monument on Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N.C. In U.S.
Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. War
Department Appropriations Bill 1929. Hearings.
January 19, 1928. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1928, pt. 2, pp. 420—421.
An Act Making Appropriations for the Military and
Non-military Activities of the War Department for the
Fiscal Year June 30, 1929, and for Other Purposes.
Approved March 23, 1928. In United States Statutes at
Large, 1927-1929, vol. 44, pp. 326—365.
Includes an appropriation of $25,000 for the Kitty
Hawk monument, p. 357.
Wright Brothers to Be Honored by NAA. Aeronautic
Review, Nov. 1928, vol. 6, p. 173, +illus.
Announces planning of a memorial by the National
Aeronautic Association on the spot from which the
first flight was made at Kitty Hawk, N. C., on
December 17, 1903.
Status of Kitty Hawk Monument, N.C. In U.S. Congress.
House. Committee on Appropriations. War Department
Appropriations Bill for 1930. Hearings November 15,
1928. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1928, pt. 2, pp. 53—54.
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight.
Proceedings at the Exercises Held at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on
December 17, 1928, in Commemoration of the Twenty-
Fifth Anniversary of the First Flight of an Airplane Made
by Wilbur and Orville Wright. Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1929, 29 pp. (70th Congress,
2d Session. House. Document no. 520).
Proceedings included are those relating to the laying
of the cornerstone of the Wright Memorial and the
unveiling of the memorial erected by the National
Aeronautic Association on the spot from which the
Wrights made their December 1903 flights.
Neely, Frederick R. N. A. A. Marks Site of the First
Airplane Flight with Impressive Ceremonies at Kitty
Hawk. Aeronautics Review, Jan. 1929, vol. 7, no. 1, pp.
4—7, +illus.
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