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

Commemoration of First Airplane Flight. Congressional
Record, Dec. 17, 1926, vol. 68, pp. 630—631.
Remarks by Hiram Bingham of Connecticut.
Horsfall, Jesse E. The First Flight. The Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, May
1927, vol. 131, pp. 14—19.
R sum of the Wright 1903 experiments and their
successful December 17, 1903, flights.
First Flight of Heavier-than-Air Machine. Aviation
Stories and Mechanics, Aug. 1927, vol. 1, no. 2, pp.
38—39, +illus.
Claudy, Carl H. The Army s First Airplane, Aero Digest,
Dec. 1927, vol. 11, pp. 636—640, +illus.
Reminiscences by one-time reporter for the New
York Herald, who witnessed and reported Orville
Wright s 1908 and 1909 Fort Myer flights and who
obtained the first interview with Orville after the
September 17, 1908, accident.
West, Rupert E. When the Wrights Gave Wings to the
World. U.S. Air Services, Dec. 1927, vol. 12, no. 12, pp.
19—23, +illus.
Based on facts supplied by Capt. W. J. Tate.
Foreign Expressions Concerning Wright Brothers
Plane. Slipstream, Apr. 1928, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 16—17, 19,
+illus.
Marsh, Lockwood. The First Flight of All. The Original
Wright Biplane Is Now on View at the Science Museum,
South Kensington. Airways, Apr. 1928, vol. 4, pp.
291—293, +illus.
Author s description of the Wright aeroplane as
seen in the Science Museum.
What Science Owes to the Wright Brothers; a Complete
R sum of the Early Wright Experiments. Slipstream,
Apr. 1928, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 9—15, 18, +illus.
The First Flight Twenty-Five Years Ago. Remarkable
Progress in Aviation in Intervening Quarter Century.
Aeronautic Review, Aug. 1928, vol. 6, pp. 116—119,
+illus.
Orlovius, Heinz. Die Erf llung der Ikarus-Sehnsucht.
(Zum 25. Gedanktagedes ersten Motorfluges der Br der
Wright.) A ronautica, Dec. 1928, vol. 2, pp. 242—244,
+illus.
Tate, William J. With the Wrights at Kitty Hawk
Anniversary of First Flight 25 Years Ago. Aeronautic
Review, Dec. 1928, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 188—192.
Aeroplanes and Flights
54 Wilbur & Orville Wright
The Wright Brothers. Popular Aviation, Dec. 1928, vol.
3, no. 6, pp. 11—16, 116—117, +illus.
Popular account of the Wright experiments and
flights through the year 1909.
The Wrights First Flights. Aero Digest, Dec. 1928, vol.
13, pp. 1104—1109, 1290—1294, +illus.
Summary of early Wright flights and experiments,
1900-1908.
Neville, Leslie E. The Original Wright Biplane. Aviation,
Dec. 1, 1928, vol. 25, pp. 1724—1726, +illus.
Slosson, Edwin E. How Man Learned to Fly. Science
News Letter, Dec. 8, 1928, vol. 14, pp. 349—351.
R sum of early Wright experiments and flights.
G[rey], C. G. On Twenty-Five Years of Flying.
Aeroplane, Dec. 19, 1928, vol. 35, pp. 965—968, +illus.
Twenty-Five Years of Flying. Flight, Dec. 20, 1928, vol.
20, pp. 1061—1062.
Editorial comment on twenty-fifth anniversary of
1903 Wright flights.
Wilbur Wright Anniversary Banquet. Flight, Dec. 20,
1928, vol. 20, pp. 1064—1067.
Account of banquet held by the Royal Aeronautical
Society in the Science Museum, London, December
17, 1928, celebrating the 1903 Wright flights. Quotes
extensively from address delivered by Griffith Brewer
reviewing the early Wright experiments.
U.S. Congress. House. Joint Resolution to Appoint a
Congressional Committee to Attend the Exercise
Celebrating the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the First
Airplane Flight Made by Wilbur and Orville on
December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina. [Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1928] 2 pp. (70th Congress, 2d Session.
H. J. Res. 332).
Introduced by Mr. Lindsay Warren of North
Carolina; referred to the Committee on Rules.
U.S. Congress. House. Congressional Committee to
Attend 25th Anniversary of 1st Airplane Flight, Kitty
Hawk, N.C. Report to Accompany H. J. Res. 342 [to
appoint Congressional Committee to attend exercises
celebrating 25th anniversary of 1st airplane flight made
by Wilbur and Orville Wright on Dec. 17, 1903, at Kill
Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, N. C.]: submitted by Mr. Snell.
December 8, 1928. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 1928, 1 p. (70th Congress, 2d session.
House. Report 1931.)