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

Replica of the Kitty Hawk Aeroplane. Western Aviation,
July 1953, vol. 33 p. 7, +illus.
The reproduction was built through the cooperation
of twenty industrial organizations in Southern
California in observance of the fiftieth anniversary of
powered flight.
Full-Scale Replica Original Wright Airplane. U.S. Air
Services, Aug. 1953, vol. 38, p. 6.
Reports the unveiling on July 15, 1953, in Los
Angeles, of the only full-scale reproduction, at that
time, of the original Wright aeroplane in the United
States, a project of the Institute of the Aeronautical
Sciences.
Dodge, Beverly A. Wright Reproduction. Aeronautical
Engineering Review, Oct. 1953, vol. 12, pp. 24—27,
+illus.
Describes the cooperative effort which resulted in
the building of a full-scale reproduction of the Wright
brothers 1903 aeroplane. The model was installed on
permanent exhibition in the W. F. Durand
Aeronautical Museum of the Institute of the
Aeronautical Sciences (now American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics) in Los Angeles in July
1952 and was officially dedicated by Lt. Gen. James
H. Doolittle, USAF (Ret.), on July 15, 1953.
1903 Wright Flyer. Aerospace, Dec. 1963, vol. 1, pp.
18—26 (and cover), +illus.
Presents details and photographs of the reconstruction
of a Wright Flyer by the National Capitol
Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics which was presented to the Wright
National Memorial Museum at Kill Devil Hill, N. C.
A Wright Replica in Los Angeles. Esso Air World,
Mar./Apr. 1954, vol. 6, p. 127, +illus.
Brief report on the building of a full-scale reproduction
of the Wright 1903 biplane.
Maycock, C. B. Prototypes Worth Modeling. No. 37
The Wright Biplane. Model Aircraft, Dec. 1953, vol. 12,
pp. 582—583, +illus.
1905 Machine
The Wright Brothers. Dayton, Ohio: Carillon Park,
[1950], 26 pp., +illus.
The restored 1905 Wright aeroplane is in Wright
Hall in Carillon Park and is discussed pp. 15—17.
Memorabilia
124 Wilbur & Orville Wright
1908 Machine
(France)
Wright Aeroplane in the French Museum. Aeronautics,
New York, June 1909, vol. 4, p. 191.
States that the 1908 aeroplane used by Wilbur
Wright in France has been presented by the Weiler
syndicate to the Arts et M tiers Museum in Paris.
1909 Machine
(Germany)
Hildebrandt, Alfred. Vom Flugahnen zum H henflug,
Berlin: VDI-Verlag GmbH, 1933, 93 pp., +illus.
(Deutsches Museum. Abhandlung und Berichte. 5 Jahr.,
Heft 3).
The Wrights are discussed, pp. 71—72, with a photograph
of their model A aeroplane flown by Orville at
Tempelhof, Germany, in August 1909, now in the
Deutsches Museum, Munich.
1909 Signal Corps Machine
Chandler, Charles D., and Lahm, Frank P. Signal Corps
No. 1 to Smithsonian. In their How Our Army Grew
Wings, New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1943, p.
187.
Note on circumstance leading to the deposit of the
Wright 1909 aeroplane in the Smithsonian Institution,
October 1911.
Wright Military Flyer Type A 1909. Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Ohio, [1960], 4 pp. (Air Force Museum
folder no. 1).
Consists of three-view drawings and specifications
of a reproduction of a Wright-built, modified Model
A aeroplane on exhibit in the Air Force Museum.
1903 Motor
The Original Wright Aero-Engine, 1903. In Science
Museum, Handbook of the Collections Illustrating
Aeronautics, London: H. Majesty s Stationery Office,
1930, vol. 3, p. 60.
Included also in 1936 edition of the Handbook, vol.
3, p. 66.
Brief description of the Wright 1903 engine exhibited
in the Science Museum, 1929-1948.