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Orville Wright Calls Armored Plate Useless. Aerial Age Weekly, June 3, 1918, vol. 7, p. 579. Orville s reported comment on occasion of death of Raoul Lufbery in a flying tank. Testimony of Orville Wright, October 3, 1918. In United States Department of Justice, Hughes Aircraft Investigation, Testimony of Witnesses, May to October 1918, vol. 22, pp. 175—193. (typescript). Interrogation by Charles Evans Hughes. Orville Wright Disparages the Glider. Literary Digest, Jan. 6, 1923, vol. 76, pp. 59—60. Crane, Carl J. Orville Wright; an Interview, University of Dayton Opponent, Apr. 1924, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 7—9. Orville Wright Forecasts Aircraft Expansion. U.S. Air Services, Nov. 1925, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 20—22, +illus. Testimony before the President s Aircraft Board, October 12, 1925. Statement of Mr. Orville Wright, Dayton, Ohio. In President s Aircraft Board, Hearings, September 21- October 15, 1925, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1925, vol. 3, pp. 1096—1100. Kelly, Fred C. What s Going on Here? An Answer to Our Traveling Reporter. Today, Mar. 31, 1934, vol. 1, no. 23, pp. 8, 22, port. Kelly s report on his interview with Orville Wright in Dayton. Farber, James. Orville Wright Interviewed. Popular Aviation, Apr. 1934, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 223—224, 261, +illus. Similar interview published in the New York Times, December 17, 1933, with title Kitty Hawk Memories, Orville Wright Chats on the Brief History of Aviation. Orville Wright Foresees Great Progress in Next Decade. U.S. Air Services, Jan. 1938, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 15. Quotes from interview with Orville Wright, December 17 at Columbia University, reported in New York Times. Orville Wright Favors All Aid to Britain. U.S. Air Services, May 1941, vol. 26, no. 5, p. 9. Orville Wright s statement to the editor on a visit to Washington, April 24-25, 1941. Orville Wright Takes a Look Back. Extension of Remarks of Hon. Herbert C. Bonner. Congressional Record, Nov. 10, 1943, vol. 89, appendix pp. A4774—A4775. Biographical References Interview at Dayton, November 6, by Fred C. Kelly, reprinted from St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday, November 7, 1943, giving Orville Wright s views on the military aeroplane, and its use in World War II as contrasted with the Wrights early conception of its use. McSurely, Alexander. Wright Favors Free Competition on Postwar Foreign Air Routes. Aviation News, Dec. 11, 1943, vol. 1, no. 20, pp. 10—11. An interview with Orville at his laboratory in Dayton. Case, Leland D. Orville Wright First Man to Fly. Rotarian, Apr. 1948, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 8—10, 50—53, +illus. Press interview with the editor several weeks before Orville s death. Biographical References Wright Brothers Books ngstr m, Tord. Br derna Wright och flygproblemets l sning. Minneskrift den f rsta motor-drivna flygningens 25- rsdag den 17dec. 1928. Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1928, 22 pp., +illus. A Swedish translation of the Wrights Century Magazine article The Wright Brothers Aeroplane with a brief introductory statement and tribute by the author on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the December 17, 1903, flights. Abramowski, Waclaw. Wilbur i Orwille Wright owie [and] Latawiec braci Wright w. In his Lotnictwo wsp lczesne. Latawce (aeroplany), Warszawa: Drukarnia Artystyczna, 1910, pp. 32—39, 97—104. Adams, Heinrich. Flug Leipzig: C. F. Amelangs Verlag, 1909, 144 pp., +illus. Short history of aviation devoted largely to the Wright brothers with a detailed account of their 1908 and 1909 flights and including a German translation titled Unser Flieger. Die Erfindung des Fliegens of their article originally published in the September 1908 issue of the Century Magazine, pp. 30—44. A Bibliography 9
L A roplane des fr res Wright. Historique exp riences description. Avec une planche de dessins originaux. Paris: Berger-Levrault & Cie., 1908, 30 pp., +illus. Compilation based on three articles originally appearing in Revue d artillerie. These comprise L. Ferrus translations of the Wright letter of March 2, 1906, to the Aero Club of America, and the Signal Corps advertisement and specifications for a heavierthan-air flying machine, December 23, 1907, and Captain Lucas-Girardville s summary of the Wright French patents. Albertson, Catherine. Wings Over Kill Devil and Legends of the Dunes. Elizabeth City, N.C., [1928], 37 pp., +illus. Privately printed in an edition of 25 copies. Includes William J. Tate s account of his association with the Wright brothers at Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina. Arrudae, Matias. A quest o Wright Santos Dumont. Contribuc o ao Congresso Nacional de Aeronautica patrocinado pelo AeroClube do Brasil. S o Sim o: Casa Minerva, 1946, 6 pp. . O s Wright. In Pequena hist ria da aviac o, S o Paulo: Livraria Martins editora s.a. [1948], pp. 140—147. Claims Santos-Dumont and not Wrights deserves honor of having first achieved powered flight. Berget, Alphonse. L A roplane des fr res Wright. In his La Route de L Air. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1909, pp. 198—208. Published also in translation in English edition titled The Conquest of the Air, London: William Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putman, 1909, pp. 192—201, and in 1911 French edition, pp. 151—157. Beringer, Sarah M. The Beginning and Future of Aviation [Dayton, Ohio, 1929], 59 pp., +illus. Account of Dayton s role in the development of the aircraft industry emphasizing activities of the Wright brothers. Bernstein, Mark. Grand Eccentrics; Turning the Century: Dayton and the Inventing of America. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 1996, 271 pp. Against the backdrop of a historical sketch of Dayton, Ohio, the author presents biographical details on Wilbur and Orville Wright, James Cox, Charles Kettering, John Patterson, and Arthur Morgan. Also includes such events as the 1913 Dayton flood. Bibliographic footnotes, pp. 239—259. Biographical References 10 Wilbur & Orville Wright Besancon, Georges. L cole am ricaine Les fr res Wright. In his Ballons et a roplanes, Paris: Garnier Fr res, 1910, pp. 289—320, +illus. Bia, Georges. Les fr res Wright et leur oeuvre. Rapport pr sent la Section A ronautique de la Soci t Belge des Ing nieurs et des Industriels. Illustr par Fox. [Saint- Mihiel]: Imprimeries du journal La Meuse [1909], 56 pp., +illus. Also in later edition, Paris: F. L. Vivien, 1910. Account of the Wright brothers and their aeroplane by their Belgian representative. Based on French sources with section devoted to Wilbur Wright s flights in France and to the flights of his pupils Count de Lambert and Paul Tissandier. Includes an extensive account, titled Les n gociations commerciales, of their negotiations for the sale of their aeroplane. Black, Archibald. Mechanical Flight at Last! In his The Story of Flying, New York: Whittlesey House, 1940, pp. 53—72, +illus. Included also in revised edition, 1943. Bl riot, Louis, and Raymond, douard. Les premiers hommesoiseaux. Orville et Wilbur Wright. In their La gloire des ailes; l aviation de Clement Ader Costes, Paris: Les ditions de France, 1928, pp. 37—52. Bracke, Albert. L A roplane Wilbur Wright. Mons: Dequesne-Masquillier & Fils, 1908, 16 pp., +illus. (His [Monographies d aviation] 1). . Construction et manocuvres de l a roplane Wright. Paris: F. L. Vivien, 1909, 16 pp., +illus. (His Monographies d aviation 5). Brigole, Alexandre. Duas palavras aos Estados Unidos. In his Santos-Dumont, o pioneiro do ar, Rio de Janeiro: Aero Clube do Brasil, 1941, pp. 79—84, +illus. Published also in English edition 1943, pp. 90—94. Ascribes priority in flight to Santos-Dumont. Based on an article by Dr. Claudio Ganns in Espelho, October 1936. Brown, Arch B. Historic Sands of Eastern Carolina. n. p., 1937, 40 pp. Includes chapter on Wright brothers, pp. 29—39. Brown, Cecil L. M. Wilbur and Orville Wright. In his The Conquest of the Air: An Historical Survey. London: Oxford University Press, 1927, pp. 87—104, +illus. Carmer, Carl L., ed. From Flying Kites to Flying Machines (Wilbur and Orville Wright). In his Cavalcade of America, the Deeds and Achievements of the Men and
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