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

Joint Resolution to Appoint a Congressional Committee
to Attend the Exercises Celebrating the Twenty-Fifth
Anniversary of the First Airplane Flight Made by Wilbur
and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil
Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. United States Statutes
at Large, 1927-29, vol. 45, pt. 1, p. 1020.
Public Resolution 71, approved December 11,
1928.
Veigelin, Konstantin E. Taina Raitov. [Wright secret] In
his Zanimatel nia aviatsia, Leningrad: Vremia, 1928,
pp. 109—114, +illus.
I brevetti de fratelli Wright. Aeronautica, Jan. 1929, vol.
3, pp. 10—14, +illus.
Includes Wrights March 12, 1906, statement to the
Aero Club of America, a r sum of their 1908 flights,
and digest of their early patents.
Kitty Hawk 25 Years after the Event. Secretary of War
and Other Officials Honor the Wright Brothers. U. S. Air
Services, Jan. 1929, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 28—31.
Report of group pilgrimage from Washington to
Kitty Hawk and of ceremonies there at laying of the
cornerstone of the national memorial to the Wright
brothers, December 17, 1928.
Wright Anniversary Dinner. December 17th, 1928.
Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Jan. 1929,
vol. 33, pp. 83—90.
Abridged Aeroplane, Dec. 19, 1928, vol. 35, pp.
968, 970.
Account of the dinner held at the Science Museum,
London, with inclusion of messages received on the
occasion of the dinner and the address in appreciation
of the Wright brothers delivered by Griffith Brewer
who was closely associated with them for many years.
A Lighthouse Keeper s Connection with Pioneers in
Aviation. Lighthouse Service Bulletin, Jan. 2, 1929, vol.
3, pp. 272—273.
Keeper W. J. Tate s relationship with Wrights.
Aviation s Twenty-Five Birthday Candles. Literary
Digest, Jan. 5, 1929, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 47, 50, 52—56,
+illus.
Bacon, David. The Airplane Observes Its Silver
Anniversary. Air Travel News, Feb. 1929, vol. 3, no. 2,
pp. 3—5, +illus.
Ohio. General Assembly. Joint Resolution Providing for
a Testimonial to Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright,
Deceased, Inventors of the Airplane on the 26th
Anniversary of the First Human Flight in a Heavier-
Aeroplanes and Flights
than-Air Machine. Columbus: 1929, 2 pp. (Senate
Resolution No. 23).
Resolution adopted, April 1, 1929.
Foulois, Benjamin D. Cross Country. Collier s, Jan. 11,
1930, vol. 85, no. 2, pp. 28—33.
Account of first cross-country flight by the author
and Orville Wright in 1909.
McMahon, John R. An Extra Spectator at the First
Flight. Aero Digest, July 1930, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 73,
202, 204, +illus.
Author sets forth claim of Robert L. Westcott,
member of the Kitty Hawk life saving crew, who testified
in the Montgomery patent suit against the
United States that he witnessed the December 17,
1903, flights from the life saving station through a
spyglass.
Wright Brothers. [Signed N.] Air, Jan. 1931, vol. 4, pp.
10—12, +illus.
Written on the occasion of a visit to the Science
Museum, London, and quotes from a section on the
Wrights in its Handbook of the Collections
Illustrating Aeronautics.
Newton, Byron R. One of the Greatest Achievements in
the Story of the Human Race. U.S. Air Services, Dec.
1931, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 19—24, +illus.
Reminiscences by a one-time aeronautic editor of
the New York Herald with frequent reference to the
Wright brothers. Reproduces Wilbur Wright s letter of
January 20, 1910, to the author and Frank S. Lahm s
letter of July 5, 1908, to him from France written on
the eve of Wilbur s flights there.
. They Said It Was Neither Fact nor Fiction and
Promptly Turned it Down. U.S. Air Services, July 1932,
vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 20—24, port.
Author s story of the Wright flights at Kitty Hawk,
May 1908, rejected at the time by magazines and
other publications. Reprints letter of Orville to the
author, June 7, 1908, regarding flights.
Montgomery, Frank A., Jr. Kitty Hawk. Sportsman Pilot,
Dec. 1932, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 22—25, 38, 47, +illus.
R sum of Kitty Hawk experiments.
Moore, Alvin E. The Dawn of Flight. U.S. Air Services,
Dec. 1932, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 35—39.
Popular account of the early Wright flying experiments
which culminated in their successful December
17, 1903, flights.
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