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

Wilbur Wright s statement as to probable cause of
accident which killed Ralph Johnstone in Denver,
November 17, 1910.
Remarks by Wilbur Wright on Presentation of Langley
Medals to Wright Brothers. In Annual Report of the
Smithsonian Institution, 1910, Washington, D.C.:
Government Printing Office, 1911, pp. 109—110.
In Honor of the Army and Aviation. Addresses of the
Evening. National Geographic Magazine, Mar. 1911,
vol. 32, pp. 279—281, +illus.
Includes brief address by Wilbur Wright at the sixth
annual banquet of the National Geographic Society,
Washington, January 14, 1911, honoring the United
States Army and the invention of the aeroplane by the
Wright brothers.
Wright Considers High Speed Too Dangerous. Fly
Magazine, Aug. 1911, vol. 3, no. 11, p. 9.
Wilbur Wright s communication to Paris edition of
an American newspaper explaining failure of Wright
Company to enter a machine in the Gordon—Bennett
race.
Wilbur Wright Favors Reliability Tests. Aero, St. Louis,
Mar. 30, 1912, vol. 3, p. 514.
Statement made in Baltimore, March 24, that he
favors cross-country reliability flight in preference to
speed contest.
Wright Co. Not Building Racer. Aero and Hydro, July
27, 1912, vol. 4, p. 374.
Includes Orville Wright s statement that company
is building only regulation machines.
Orville Wright Talks on Automatic Stability. Aircraft,
Nov. 1912, vol. 3, p. 275.
States that he has no faith in principle of the Sperry
gyroscope.
Tenth Anniversary of Flight. Aeronautics, New York,
Dec. 1913, vol. 13, pp. 208—209, 220, +illus.
Includes brief statement by Orville Wright
acknowledging honor done him at anniversary dinner
given December 18 by the Aeronautical Society.
Wright Finds Ocean Crossing Risky Now. Aero and
Hydro, Feb. 21, 1914, vol. 7, p. 261.
Reproduces Orville Wright s letter of February 13,
1914, to the editor.
Orville Wright Says His Health Would Not Permit Him
to Accept Commission to Rebuild British Air Fleet.
Aerial Age Weekly, July 5, 1915, vol. 1, p. 367.
Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright
8 Wilbur & Orville Wright
Kelly, Fred C. Flying Machines and the War; an
Interview with Orville Wright. Collier s, July 31, 1915,
vol. 55, pp. 24—25.
Published also in Simonds, Frank A., History of the
World War, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917,
vol. 1, p. 376.
Orville states that the aeroplane will prevent war by
making its cost prohibitive.
The Annual Air Derby. Aerial Age Weekly, May 29,
1916, vol. 3, p. 334.
Includes brief comment by Orville Wright on proposed
transcontinental air race for the Ralph Pulitzer
trophy.
Dinner Given for Orville Wright. Aerial Age Weekly,
Feb. 19, 1917, vol. 4, p. 652.
Dinner given at Delmonico s in New York by
Grover Loening. Includes brief excerpts from
Orville s speech on hardships and discouragements he
and his brother experienced in their early experiments.
Hendrick, Burton J. The Safe and Useful Aeroplane. An
Interview with Orville Wright. Harper s Magazine, Apr.
1917, vol. 134, pp. 609—619, +illus.
Published also in Aviation, Apr. 1, 1917, vol. 2, pp.
224—226.
Extensive interview in which Orville Wright stresses
peacetime uses of the aeroplane.
[Findley, Earl N.] Orville Wright Says 10,000
Aeroplanes Would Win the War within Ten Weeks. New
York Times Magazine Section, July 1, 1917, pp. 1—2.
Orville Wright s comments on the Aircraft
Production Board and the government s proposed aircraft
manufacturing program.
Brief Statement on Aircraft and War on Occasion of the
Awarding of a Doctor of Science Degree by the
University of Cincinnati. Aerial Age Weekly, July 2,
1917, vol. 5, p. 521.
Says Aircraft Will Win War. Aerial Age Weekly, July 9,
1917, vol. 5, p. 563.
Brief quotation from interview with Orville Wright.
The Work of Orville Wright. Aerial Age Weekly, Oct. 15,
1917, vol. 6, p. 195.
Includes Orville s statement on airplane as an
instrument of peace.
Wright to Make Aeros for Commercial Use. Aerial Age
Weekly, Oct. 29, 1917, vol. 6.
Includes quotations from interview with Orville
Wright.