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

Originally published in his Global Mission, New
York: Harper & Brothers, 1949, pp. 16—29.
Kitty Hawk. Chirp, Apr. 1, 1950, no. 43, pp. 3—4.
Account of Frank Lahm s participation in the fortysixth
anniversary celebration of the Wrights first
flights.
Langewiesche, Wolfgang. What the Wrights Really
Invented. Harper s Magazine, June 1950, vol. 200, pp.
102—105.
Published also in U.S. Air Services, Aug. 1950, vol.
35, no. 8, pp. 13, 16—17, +illus.
Author stresses their achievement of control of
flight, particularly the control of bank by the use of
wing-warping in conjunction with a controllable vertical
tail-rudder.
Beck, Charles P. It Happened at Kitty Hawk; First Plane
Flight at Kitty Hawk. Instructor, Dec. 1950, vol. 60, p.
23, +illus.
[Findley, Earl N.] If a Lie Is Repeated Often Enough
Someone Will Believe It. U.S. Air Services, Sept. 1951,
vol. 36, no. 9, pp. 5—6.
Editorial taking exception to statements by C. G.
Grey that Ader was the first to achieve powered flight
in an article titled, The First Half-Century of
Aviation, Interavia, June 1951, vol. 6, p. 319.
Brown, Aycock. The Kill Devil Story. Air Force, Dec.
1951, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 11—12.
Statement on aims and purpose of the Kill Devil
Hill Memorial Association and its plans to become a
national organization with name Kill Devil Hill
Memorial Society.
Lahm, Frank P. Memoirs of Fort Myer. Aeronautica,
Jan./Mar. 1952, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1, 9—10, +illus.
Description of Wright first military aeroplane.
Golden Anniversary of Flight to Be Observed Fittingly.
National Aeronautics, Dec. 1952, vol. 31, p. 2.
Announces plans for the nationwide, yearlong observance
of the fiftieth anniversary of powered flight.
Wright Memorial Observance. Aviation Week, Dec. 29,
1952, vol. 57, p. 15.
Summary of events held in Kitty Hawk, N.C.,
Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D. C., on December
17, 1952, in celebration of forty-ninth anniversary of
the Wright brothers first successful flights.
Ludovico, Domenico. I Realizzatori dell Aeroplano:
Wright. In his L Aeroplano; Soluzione ed Evoluzione del
Aeroplanes and Flights
62 Wilbur & Orville Wright
Problema del Volo. 3. ed. Rome: Associazione Culturale
Aeronautica, 1952, pp. 25—32, +illus.
Rolfe, Douglas. Wrights Biplane. Air Progress; History
of Aviation, 1952, pp. 62—63.
Whitehouse, Arch. Illustrated by Albert Orbaan.
Success at Kitty Hawk. In his The Real Book about
Airplanes. Garden City, New York: Garden City Books,
1952, pp. 55—66, +illus.
Included also in 1961 edition, pp. 63—74.
Allen, Carl B. The Concept of Flight That Worked. Bee-
Hive, Jan. 1953, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 3—6, +illus.
Account of early Wright brothers experiments and
research which led to their successful powered flights
of December 17, 1903.
Ceremonies Held at Kitty Hawk. National Aeronautics,
Jan. 1953, vol. 32, p. 5.
Account of Wright brothers anniversary celebration,
December 17, 1952.
Haven, Gil. The Wrights at the Stick. Bee-Hive, Jan.
1953, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 12—15, +illus.
Account of the development of controls and piloting
techniques of Wrights.
Johnson, Jesse S. Kitty Hawk Ceremonies Inaugurate
50th Year Wright Flight Anniversary. Airpost Journal,
Jan. 1953, vol. 24, pp. 108, 126.
Ushering in the Golden Anniversary of Flight. U.S. Air
Services, Jan. 1953, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1—2.
Fravel, Ira F. The Wright Brothers, B. F. (Before Flying).
U.S. Air Services, Feb. 1953, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 16.
Whitener, Ralph V. Fly-By at Kitty Hawk. Air Force,
Feb. 1953, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 54—56, +illus.
Account of Wright brothers 49th anniversary ceremonies
at Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1952.
U.S. Congress. House. Joint Resolution to Provide for
Proper Participation by the United States Government
in a National Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary
Year of Controlled Powered Flight Occurring during the
Year from Dec. 17, 1952, to Dec. 17, 1953. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1953, 3 pp. (83rd
Congress, 1st Session. H. J. Res. 193).
Introduced Feb. 18, 1953, by Mr. Hinshaw of
California; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Allen, C. B. Earl N. Findley, Chronicler of the Era of
Powered Flight. Pegasus, Apr. 1953, vol. 20, no. 4, pp.