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

Speech of Hon. Lindsay Warren. Extension of Remarks
of Hon. Herbert C. Bonner. Congressional Record, Dec.
18, 1943, vol. 89, appendix p. A5577.
Speech delivered December 17, 1943, at celebration
honoring Orville Wright, Washington,
Chandler, Charles D., and Lahm, Frank P. Signal Corps
No. 1 to Smithsonian. In their How Our Army Grew
Wings. New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1943, p.
187.
Note on circumstance leading to the deposit of the
Wright 1909 aeroplane in the Smithsonian Institution,
October 1911.
Fortieth Anniversary. Model Airplane News, Jan. 1944,
vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 10—11, 45—46, +illus.
The Fortieth Anniversary. The World Honors the Wright
Brothers. National Aeronautics, Jan. 1944, vol. 22, no. 1,
pp. 12—13, 54, +illus.
The Orville Wright Dinner. U.S. Air Services, Jan. 1944,
vol. 29, no. 1, p. 10.
Brief report on fortieth anniversary dinner given by
the Aero Club of Washington, December 17, 1943,
and attended by Orville Wright.
Wright Bros. Flier Model. Airplane News, Jan. 1944,
vol. 30, p. 10.
Scale plans drawn by W. A. Wylam.
P[arish], W[ayne] W. The Wright Dinner Moral
Lesson. American Aviation, Jan. 1, 1944, vol. 7, no. 15,
pp. 23—24, +illus.
Wright Brothers Honored on Flight Anniversary. Aero
Digest, Jan. 1, 1944, vol. 44, pp. 191, 201.
Blake, Bob. 41 Years of Flight. Aviation and Yachting,
Dec. 1944, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 32—33, 35—36, +illus.
Anniversary account of Wright 1903 flights.
Carnegie, Dale. They Made History in Twelve Seconds
[Wright Brothers]. In his Dale Carnegie s Biographical
Roundup; Highlights in the Lives of Forty Famous
People. New York: Greenberg, 1944, pp. 228—233.
Included also in British edition (Kingswood,
Surrey: The World s Work, Ltd., 1946), pp. 190—195.
Orville Wright Attends 41st Anniversary Celebration.
U.S. Air Services, Jan. 1945, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 18—19.
Report on Orville Wright s attendance at meeting of
the National Aeronautic Association and the Institute
of the Aeronautical Sciences, Washington, D.C.,
December 17, 1944. On this occasion, as a previous
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recipient of the Robert Collier Trophy, he was presented
with a certificate of award for the year 1913.
Builders of America; Picture Biography. Scholastic, Apr.
30, 1945, vol. 46, p. 11. +illus.
Account of Wright brothers.
Kelly, Fred C. For the Wright Record. Technology
Review, June 1945, vol. 47, pp. 484—485, +illus.
An account of the arrangements made by the
Wrights for recording data on their December 17,
1903 flights. The recording devices used were a revolution
counter, anemometer, and stop watch. Based on
information furnished by Orville Wright in a letter to
the author, January 17, 1945.
Wylam, William. Wright Brothers Original Flier. In his
Scale Models by Wylam. Book II. New York: Air Age,
Inc., 1945, frontispiece.
1946—1955
Hettick, John. Twelve Seconds for the Wrights. Aero
Digest, Apr. 1946, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 29, 156, +illus.
Story of the early Wright experiments published in
the author s series of articles titled, Gallery of
Aviation s Frontiersmen No. 4.
Sidram, Louis. When the Aeroplane First Saluted Liberty.
Esquire, May 1946, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 48—50, +illus.
Wilbur Wright s flight of September 29, 1909, from
Governors Island around the Statue of Liberty and
return; accompanied by a colored lithograph of this
event by Harper Goff.
Wylam Masterplans: Wright Model A, Wright Model B.
Model Airplane News, Mar. 1947, vol. 36, pp. 34—35.
Kelly, Fred C. First Night Flight. Technology Review,
July 1947, vol. 49, p. 521.
Account of Orville Wright s flight, September 1909
at Dormstedt (i.e., Bornstedt) military parade ground
near Potsdam.
Mattioli, Guido. L Aero Club di Roma onora Wilbur
Wright, ed i pionieri dell aria di tutto il mondo.
L Aviazione, Oct. 26, 1947, vol. 30, +illus.
The Army-Wright Contract. Chirp, Mar. 1948, no. 37,
p. 4.
Brief summary of events leading to the signing of a
contract between the U.S. Army and the Wrights,
February 10, 1908.