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

Most extensive account to date on the Wright
machine. Referential Data on the Wright Flyer, p.
11, cites source of much of data.
Hildebrandt, Alfred. The Wright Brothers Flying
Machine. American Magazine of Aeronautics, Jan. 1908,
vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 13—16
Translation from an article originally published in
October in the Lokal Anzeiger, Berlin.
Turner, George Kibbe. The Men Who Learned to Fly
McClure s Magazine, Feb. 1908, vol. 30, pp. 443—452,
+illus.
Based on interview with Wright brothers in January
1907. Includes many incorrect statements and uses
direct quotations which were not mentioned nor a part
of their conversations.
Les premiers a roplanes militaires. L A rophile, Mar.
1908, vol. 16, pp. 115—116.
Announces signing of contract by the Wrights for
delivery of an aeroplane to the U.S. Army to meet certain
specified conditions.
Espitallier, Georges. L Etat actual de l aviation. Le
G nie civil, Apr. 4, 1908, vol. 53, pp. 398—401, +illus.
Includes discussion of the Wright brothers in sections
titled Les aviateurs americains and Appareil
Wright moteur, pp. 400—401.
Ruhl, Arthur. History at Kill Devil Hill. Collier s, May
30, 1998, vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 18—19, 26, +illus.
Report on Wright May flights at Kitty Hawk by one
of a group of reporters witnessing flights from a distance
of about a mile away.
American Aeronauts Disclosure of Wright Brothers
Secret. American Aeronaut, June 1908, vol. 1, no. 6, p.
208.
Editorial comment on Carl Dienstbach s article on
the Wrights in the January issue of the journal.
Dienstbach, Carl. The Recent Flights of the Wright
Brothers in North Carolina. American Aeronaut, June
1908, vol. 1, pp. 209—211, +illus.
Author s comparison of his version of the Wright
aeroplane published in the January issue of the journal
with that in the newspaper reports of the Wright May
1908 flights, particularly as reported by Byron
Newton of the New York Herald.
Newton, Byron R. Watching the Wright Brothers Fly.
Aeronautics, New York, June 1908, vol. 2, pp. 6—10.
Correspondent of the New York Herald reports on
the Wright May 1908 flights.
Aeroplanes and Flights
Verney, L. L A roplane Wright, L Ouest-Touriste et
Sportif, vol. 2, no. 6, 1908, pp. 41—44, +illus.
Von den Br dern Wright. Erstaunliche Berichte!
Rekords von 8-12 Kilometer! Eine Herausforderung
Farmans! Wiener Luftschiffer-Zeitung, June 1908, vol. 7,
pp. 125—126.
Quotations and summary of newspaper accounts of
the Wrights in Kitty Hawk appearing May 2, 3, 7, 9,
14, and Farman s open letter of May 17, which
appeared in a number of newspapers.
Chanute, Octave. Wright Brothers Flights. Independent,
June 4, 1908, vol. 64, pp. 1287—1288.
Report on Wright May flights at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina.
Secret of the Wright Air-ship. Literary Digest, June 13,
1908, vol. 36, pp. 861—862, +illus.
Description of the Wright aeroplane based on the
account of the May 1908 Wright flights reported in the
New York Herald, May 29 and 31.
Wright s Secret of Flying Revealed at Last: Photographs
of the Mysterious Aeroplane, Illustrated London News,
June 13, 1908, vol. 132, p. 849.
Reproduces photographs originally published in the
Scientific American and the New York Herald.
Philos. Les Fr res Wright en Amerique et en France
L A rophile, June 15, 1908, vol. 16, pp. 222—223.
Includes the Wrights letter of June 3, 1908, giving
details on their May 1908 flights at Kitty Hawk,
announcement of the arrival of Wilbur Wright in
France, and a statement about his plane as given in an
interview with Francois Peyrey in L Auto.
Sauvage Adjudication d a roplanes militaires aux tats
Unis. La Nature, June 27, 1908, vol. 36, p. 54.
Dominik, H. A. Tollaire ber die Wright. Der
Motorwagen. June 30, 1908, vol. 11, pp. 480—481.
Reprinted from La France Automobile.
Chanute, Octave. Recent Aeronautical Progress in the
United States. Aeronautical Journal, July 1908, vol. 12,
pp. 52—55.
Includes reference to Wright 1908 flights and the
Wright contract with the U. S. Government.
. Bevorstehende Flugversuche in Amerika.
(Uebersetzt vonMathilde v. Buttlar) Illustrierte
Aeronautische Mitteilungen, July 1, 1908, vol. 12, pp.
345—349.
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