The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Jakab, Peter L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • “The Age of the Flying Machine Had Come”: The Wrights Tell Their Story

1. Statement by the Wright Brothers to the Associated Press 2. Statement to the Aero Club of America 3. Our Recent Experiments in North Carolina 4. Our Aeroplane Tests at Kitty Hawk 5. The Wright Brothers’ Aëroplane 6. Ohio in Aviation 7. Presentation of Langley Medal to Messrs. Wilbur and Orville Wright 8. The Earliest Wright Flights—A Letter from Wilbur Wright 9. A Letter from Orville and Wilbur Wright 10. How We Made the First Flight 11. My Narrowest Escape in the Air 12. How I Learned to Fly 13. The Work of Orville Wright 14. Wright’s First Statement since the War 15. Orville Wright: An Interview 16. Our Early Flying Machine Developments 17. The Wright-Langley Controversy: Both Sides Presented by Orville Wright and Dr. Walcott 18. Winged Pioneers: A Thumbnail History of Aviation by the Men Who Have Made It 19. Why the 1903 Wright Airplane Is Sent to a British Museum 20. Orville Wright Declines—Naturally: With the Smithsonian These Days Life Is Just One Statement—and Label—after Another 21. Wilbur Wright 22. What’s Going On Here? An Answer by Our Traveling Reporter, Fred C. Kelly 23. Our Life in Camp at Kitty Hawk 24. Orville Wright Ordered Return to America of Original Airplane 25. Orville Wright—“First Man to Fly”

2 • “Some Aeronautical Experiments”: Technical Articles by the Wrights

26. Angle of Incidence 27. The Horizontal Position during Gliding Flight 28. Some Aeronautical Experiments 29. Experiments and Observations in Soaring Flight 30. The Relations of Weight, Speed, and Power of Flyers 31. Inverted Aeroplane Stresses 32. Stability of Aeroplanes 33. Possibilities of Soaring Flight

3 • “The Greatest of the Precursors”: The Wrights Assess Their Contemporaries

34. He Can Half Fly 35. Air Ship Soon to Fly 36. Wright’s Statement Concerning Johnstone’s Fatal Fall 37. The Life and Work of Octave Chanute 38. What Mouillard Did 39. What Clement Ader Did 40. Otto Lilienthal 41. The Mythical Whitehead Flight

4 • “It is Never Safe to Prophesy”: The Wrights on the Future of Aviation

42. Flying as a Sport—Its Possibilities 43. The Aeroplane: What It Will Be Like in Five Years Time, Opinions of Prominent Aeroists 44. The Future of the Aeroplane 45. Flying from London to Manchester 46. Airship Safe: Air Motoring No More Dangerous Than Land Motoring 47. A Talk with Wilbur Wright 48. W. Wright on Altitude and Fancy Flying 49. In Honor of the Army and Aviation 50. Wright Considers High Speed Too Dangerous 51. Wilbur Wright Favors Reliability Tests 52. Wright Finds Ocean Crossing Risky Now 53. Flying Machines and the War 54. Address by Orville Wright at the National Parks Conference, under the Auspices of the Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., January 5, the Day’s Program Being Devoted to the Subject of “Motor Travel to the Parks,” and under the Direction of the American Automobile Association 55. The Safe and Useful Aeroplane 56. Orville Wright Says 10,000 Aeroplanes Would End the War within Ten Weeks 57. Says Aircraft Will Win War 58. Wright to Make Aeros for Commercial Use 59. The Future of Civil Flying 60. Sporting Future of the Airplane: Reduced Landing Speeds an Essential Factor 61. The Commercial Airplane 62. Low-Speed Landing Is First Need of Aviation 63. Inventor of the Airplane Details Some of Early Experiences in Radio Message to World 64. Orville Wright Forecasts Aircraft Expansion 65. What Is Ahead in Aviation: America’s Foremost Leaders in Many Branches of Flying Give Remarkable Forecasts of the Future 66. Sun Power Motor 67. Orville Wright Foresees Great Progress in Next Decade 68. Orville Wright Takes Look Back on 40 Years since First Flight; Despite Air War, Has No Regrets 69. Wright Favors Free Competition on Postwar Foreign Air Routes

Appendix • “Then We Quit Laughing”: Witnesses to the Birth of Flight

70. Then We Quit Laughing 71. With the Wrights at Kitty Hawk: Anniversary of First Flight Twenty-five Years Ago 72. I Was Host to Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk 73. My Story of the Wright Brothers 74. The First Airplane—After 1903

Bibliography Photography Credits Photo Insert

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