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

Liberty, April 28, 1945), re-regarding Gustave
Whitehead, the first man to fly a heavier-than-air
machine, two years, four months and three days previous
to the Wright flight at Kitty Hawk.
. Our Early Flying Machine Development.
Slipstream, Jan. 1925, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 11—15, +illus.
Published also in Slipstream, Sept. 1927, vol. 8, no.
9, pp. 15—16; Wright Engine Builder, Dec. 1928, vol.
10, no.12, pp. 3—5.
Brief statement on the 1903 Kitty Hawk flights.
. Our Life in Camp at Kitty Hawk. U.S. Air
Services, Dec. 1943, vol. 28, no. 12, pp. 12—17, +illus.
Made up entirely of excerpts from letters written
at Kitty Hawk by Wilbur and me to our sister
Katharine The story of the first flight is not included.
. Our Recent Experiments in North Carolina. By
Wright Brothers [Orville Wright]. Aeronautics, June
1908, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 4—6, ports.
Brief note on flights of May 6-14, 1908.
. Possibilities of Soaring Flight. U.S. Air
Services, Dec. 1922, vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 7—9.
Presents view that the importance of soaring flight
was being exaggerated as result of the experiments in
Europe in 1922, and that the powered aeroplane
would remain unrivaled as a means of transportation
as would the wind tunnel as a source of precise aerodynamic
knowledge.
. Le Premier vol d un a roplane (17 d cembre,
1903), par Orville Wright, L A ronautique, Dec. 1923,
vol. 5, p. 494.
Translated excerpts from The Wright Brothers
Aeroplane by Orville and Wilbur Wright.
. Sporting Future of the Aeroplane. U.S. Air
Services, Feb. 1919, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4—5, +illus.
Emphasizes reduced landing speeds as an essential
factor.
. Stability of Aeroplanes. Journal of the Franklin
Institute, Sept. 1914, vol. 78, pp. 249—258.
Published also in Aeronautics, Sept. 15, 1914, vol.
14, pp. 67—68, 78; Scientific American Supplement,
Sept. 26, 1914, vol. 78, pp. 206—207; abstract
Aeroplane, Oct. 9, 1914, vol. 6, pp. 1024—1026;
reprinted Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company,
1914; Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution,
1914, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1915, pp. 209—216, and reprinted as Smithsonian
Publication 2328; Aerial Age Weekly, July 19, 1915,
Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
vol. 1, pp. 428—429; abstract Scientific American
Supplement, May 13, 1916, vol. 81, p. 320.
Address presented at the Franklin Institute, May 20,
1914.
. [Statement to National Aeronautic Association,
August 1928.] Aeronautic Review, Aug. 1928, vol. 6, no.
8, p. 114, +illus.
Published also in Dayton Motor News, Dec. 1928,
vol. 6, no. 12, p. 3.
Brief twenty-fifth anniversary statement.
. The Story of the Wright Brothers Early
Developments. In Dayton—Wright Airplanes,
Commercial and Pleasure Aircraft of Distinction,
Dayton: The General Motors Corporation, Dayton—
Wright Division, 1920, pp. [5—10].
On Orville Wright s copy of this publication, he
ruled out his name and wrote in that of F. C. Makeley
as the author.
. Sun Power Motor. Science News Letter, Apr. 16,
1932, vol. 21, p. 239.
Very brief statement by Orville Wright, one of
eleven opinions by eminent American inventors
answering the question submitted to them by Science
Service: The Next Great Invention: What Does the
World Need Most?
. Why the 1903 Wright Airplane Is Sent to a
British Museum. U.S. Air Services, Mar. 1928, vol. 13,
no. 1, pp. 30—31.
Also U.S. Air Services, Feb. 1948, p. 33, vol. 13,
no. 2, pp.14—15.
. Wilbur Wright. [Signed O. W.] In The
Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th ed., London, New York:
1929, vol. 23, pp. 808—809.
Continued in later editions.
. [in part.] The Wright—Langley Controversy.
Aviation, May 1925, vol. 18, pp. 550—551, +illus.
Orville Wright and Dr. Charles D. Walcott,
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, present both
sides of the controversy.
Wright s First Statement Since the War. U.S. Air
Services, Dec. 1921, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 8.
Statement submitted to the Aeronautical Chamber
of Commerce on the eighteenth anniversary of the
first flight. Stresses importance of the 1901 wind-tunnel
experiments.
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