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Index
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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