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Abelin, Rudolf. Orville Wright Motorflyningens
Fader. Ett r i Luften, 1949, pp. 116—127, +illus.
Obituaries: Orville Wright. In 1949 Britannica Book of
the Year. Chicago, Toronto, London: Encyclopaedia
Britannica, Inc., 1949, p. 537.
Obituary. Current Biography 1948, New York: H. W.
Wilson Company, 1949, p. 696.
Orville Wright. In The Americana Annual 1949, New
York: Americana Corporation, 1949, p. 738.
When Orville Wright Lived at the Cosmos Club. Cosmos
Club Bulletin, May 1950, vol. 3, no. 7, p. 2.
Note on Orville s stay at the Club in May 1908.
Orville Wright. In Who Was Who in America, vol. 2,
Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1950, p. 595.
Hanuschke, Wilhelm. I Flew with Orville Wright. U.S.
Air Services, Dec. 1952, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 7—9, +illus.
Account of the author s meeting and flight with
Orville Wright at Tempelhof Field, Berlin, in 1909.
McFarland, Marvin W. Orville Wright and Friend. U.S.
Air Services, Aug. 1956, vol. 51, pp. 5—7.
An account of the association of Orville Wright and
Earl N. Findley, deceased July 11, 1956, with excerpts
from their correspondence.
Kelly, Fred C. A Psychic Mystery of Aviation. Michigan
Alumnus Quarterly Review, Aug. 9, 1958, vol. 64, pp.
352—353.
An account of a practical joke played by Orville on
his friend Griffith Brewer involving the source of the
quotation so easy it seemed, once found, which, yet
unfound, most would have thought impossible from
Milton s Paradise Lost.
Orville Wright. In Lassalle, Eugene J. Les 100 premiers
aviateurs brevet s au monde et la naissance de l aviation.
[Paris] Nauticaero, [1962], pp. 50—51.
Orville was granted pilot s license no. 14 by
L A ro-Club of France in 1909.
Orville Wright. In The Guggenheim Medalists: Architects
of the Age of Flight, New York: The Guggenheim Medal
Board of Award, 1964, pp. 56—57, port.
Much abridged and rewritten version of biography
originally published by the Daniel Guggenheim
Medal Fund in 1932, 1936, and 1953.
Renneisen, Bob. Orville Wright s Last Flight, Aerospace
Historian, Spring 1968, pp. 29—31.
Aeroplanes and Flights
An account of the flight of the new Lockheed C-69
Constellation at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, Apr. 26,
1944. What made the flight notable was that Orville
Wright, surviving co-inventor of the airplane took
over the controls for 10 minutes. It was to be his last
flight.
Aeroplanes and Flights
1903
Chanute, Octave. Gliding Machines. The Latest
Aeronautical Experiments. Illustrated Scientific News,
Feb. 1903, vol. 23, p. 73, +illus.
Brief account of 1902 Wright glider and gliding
experiments illustrated by three photographs of glider
in flight.
Die Br der Wright. Wiener Luftschiffer-Zeitung, Mar.
1903, vol. 2, pp. 56—57.
Brief mention of Wrights 1902 glider experiments.
Nimf hr, Raimund. Die Neuesten Fortschritte in der
praktischen Fliegekunst. Illustrirte Zeitung, Mar. 5,
1903, vol. 120, p. 351, +illus.
Brief reference to Wright gliding experiments,
1900-1902, illustrated by five photographs of their
1902 glider. This was one of a number of contemporary
articles later cited by the courts as including disclosures
which invalidated the Wright patent claims.
Le Beschu, F. Locomotion a rienne en Am rique. Le
Monde illustr , Mar. 28, 1903, vol. 47, p. 299, +illus.
Includes details of the Wright glider supplied by
Octave Chanute.
Diner-Conf rence du 2 avril 1903. M. Chanute l A ro-
Club. L A rophile, Apr. 1903, vol. 11, pp. 81—86, +illus.
Chanute s address before the A ro-Club of France
detailing Wright experiments of 1900, 1901, and 1902
illustrated with photographs from La Locomotion
below.
Archdeacon, Ernest. M. Chanute Paris. La
Locomotion, Apr. 11, 1903, vol. 3, pp. 225—227, +illus.
This report of Chanute s speech of April 2, before the
A ro-Club of France, Paris, aroused tremendous French
interest in heavier-than-air flight and led to experiments
which marked the beginning of European aviation. Has
reference to the Wright experiments but photographs of
several of the Wright gliders are erroneously labeled as
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