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10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 70.
12. Ibid., p. 73.
13. Ibid., p. 74.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon and Shuster, 2016), p. 60.
18. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 108.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 108.
21. Ibid., p. 81.
22. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 209.
23. Wilbur Wright, “Some Aeronautical Experiments,” Journal of the Western Society of Engineers 6 (1901): 501.
24. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 75.
25. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, “Correcting Smeaton,” https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/wright-brothers/online/fly/1901/smeaton.cfm.
26. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 210.
27. Wright, “Some Aeronautical Experiments,” p. 503.
28. McCullough, Wright Brothers, p. 62.
29. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 77.
30. Patrick Nolan and John Zamonski, The Wright Brothers Collection (Columbus, OH: Wright State University, 1977), p. 165.
31. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 212.
32. Ibid.
33. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, ed. Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2016), p. 32.
34. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 213.
35. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 81.
36. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 213.
37. Stephen Goddard, Race to the Sky: The Wright Brothers versus the United States Government (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003), p. 101.
38. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 83.
39. Howard, Wilbur and Orville, p. 67.
40. Ibid.
41. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 210.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid., p. 213.
44. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 84.
45. Ibid., p. 150.
46. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 213.
Chapter 14: Wilbur Unleashed—1901
1. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 91.
2. Ibid., p. 92.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 99.
5. Ibid., p. 93.
6. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 99.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., p. 95.
10. Ibid., p. 116.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., p. 100.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., p. 99.
15. Ibid., p. 100.
16. Ibid., p. 103.
17. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, ed. Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2016), p. 32.
18. Wilbur Wright, “Some Aeronautical Experiments,” Journal of the Western Society of Engineers 6 (1901): 506.
19. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 115.
20. Ibid., p. 116.
Chapter 15: Tunnel Vision—1901
1. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, ed. Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2016), p. 32.
2. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), p. 69.
3. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 156.
4. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (New York: Ballantine, 2015), p. 53.
5. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 185.
6. Ibid., p. 115.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., p. 183.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 187.
11. Ibid., p. 183.
Chapter 16: The Smithsonian—1902
1. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 261.
2. Ibid., p. 257.
3. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, ed. Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2016), p. 25.
4. Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (New York: Courier, 2013), p. 96.
Chapter 17: The Movable Rudder—1902
1. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 260.
2. Fred Kelly, The Wright Brothers: A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943), p. 78.
3. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 269.
4. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), p. 77.
5. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 260.
6. Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (New York: Courier, 2013), p. 89.
7. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, p. 470.
8. Ibid.
9. Howard, Wilbur and Orville, p. 82.
10. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 281.
Chapter 18: United States Patent Office—1903
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 246.
2. Ibid., p. 254.
3. Thomas Hill, “Status of the Wrights’ Suits,” Aeronautics 5–7 (1909): 122.
4. Stephen Goddard, Race to the Sky: The Wright Brothers versus the United States Government (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003), p. 117.
Chapter 19: The Western Society of Engineers—1903
1. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, ed. Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2016), p. 13.
2. Ibid., p. 11.
3. Ibid., p. 231.
4. Ibid., p. 9.
5. Ibid., p. 10.
6. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 323.
7. Ibid., p. 597.
8. John Klooster, Icons of Invention, vol. 1 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2009), p. 382.
9. Wilbur Wright, “Observations in Soaring Flight,” Journal of the Western Society of Engineers 8 (August 1903): 410.
10. Ibid., p. 415.
11. Ibid., p. 416.
Chapter 20: The Great Embarrassment—1903
1. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control The Skies (New York: Ballantine, 2015), p. 77.
2. Ibid., p. 78.
3. Ibid., p. 79.
Chapter 21: Great Things—September 23, 1903
1. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), p. 85.
2. Ibid., p. 86.
3. Marvin McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 357.
4. Ibid., p. 356.
5. Ibid., p. 359.
6. Ibid., p.
365.
7. Ibid., p. 367.
8. Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (New York: Courier, 2013), p. 115.
9. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 364.
10. Ibid., p. 373.
11. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, ed. Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2016), p. 230.
12. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 374.
13. Howard, Wilbur and Orville, p. 117.
14. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 378.
15. Ibid., p. 381.
16. Ibid., p. 379.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., p. 380.
19. Ibid., p. 381.
20. Ibid., p. 383.
21. McCullough, Wright Brothers, p. 99.
22. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 388.
23. Ibid., p. 389.
24. Ibid., p. 390.
25. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (New York: Ballantine, 2015), p. 79.
26. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 390.
27. Ibid., p. 385.
28. First Flight Foundation, “Coin Toss,” https://firstflightfoundation.org/coin-toss/.
29. Ibid., p. 392.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
Chapter 22: The Photograph—December 17, 1903
1. Marvin McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 394.
2. Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (New York: Courier, 2013), p. 135.
3. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 394.
4. Ibid., p. 395.
5. Ibid.
6. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), p. 105.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 358.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., p. 397. Please note, this initial telegram was incorrect; the fourth flight lasted 59 seconds.
13. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, “1903 Wright Flyer Fabric Taken to Moon: Apollo 11,” https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/430-l1-s1hjpg.
14. Ibid. The initial telegram was erroneous; the fourth flight had a duration of 59 seconds.
15. Ibid., p. 403.
16. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright, Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, ed. Peter L. Jakab and Rick Young (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2016), p. 212.
17. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 403.
18. Ibid., p. 396.
19. Ibid., p. 395.
20. Ibid.
21. Torenbeek Wittenberg, Flight Physics: Essentials of Aeronautical Disciplines and Technology, with Historical Notes (Dordrecht: Springer Science and Business Media, 2009), p. 1.
22. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 396.
23. Ibid.
PART 3: LANDINGS
Chapter 23: Fliers or Liars—1906
1. Cecil Roseberry, Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1972), p. 52.
2. James Tobin, To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004), p. 250.
3. Roseberry, Glenn Curtiss, p. 63.
4. Ibid., p. 48.
5. Ibid., p. 71.
6. Ibid., p. 51.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., p. 52.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 284.
12. David McCullough, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), p. 120.
13. “The Wright Aeroplane and Its Fabled Performances,” Scientific American 94, no. 2, January 13, 1905.
14. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 271.
15. Fred Kelly, The Wright Brothers: A Biography Authorized by Orville Wright (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943), p. 105.
16. Ibid., p. 106.
17. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 1, 1899–1903 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 409.
18. Popular Aviation, December 1928, p. 14.
19. Kelly, Wright Brothers, p. 109.
20. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 274.
21. Ibid., p. 277.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Harper's Magazine, 1940, p. 288.
25. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 437.
26. McCullough, Wright Brothers, p. 126.
27. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 1, 1899–1903, p. 514.
28. Kelly, Wright Brothers, p. 138.
29. Herbert Molloy Mason, The United States Air Force: A Turbulent History (New York: Charter, 1976), p. 5.
30. McCullough, Wright Brothers, p. 128.
31. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 277.
32. Ibid., p. 313.
33. Ibid., p. 132.
34. Kelly, Wright Brothers, p. 136.
35. Ibid.
36. Roseberry, Glenn Curtiss, p. 53.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., p. 54.
39. Ibid., p. 81.
40. Ibid., p. 82.
Chapter 24: Death in the Sky—September 17, 1908
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 376.
2. Marvin McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 2, 1906–1948 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 907.
3. Mark Eppler, The Wright Way: 7 Problem Solving Principles from the Wright Brothers (New York: AMACOM, 2003), p. 182.
4. Ibid.
5. Cecil Roseberry, Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Flight (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1972), p. 124.
6. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 376.
7. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 2, 1906–1948, p. 907.
8. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 260.
9. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (New York: Ballantine, 2015), p. 137.
10. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 2, 1906–1948, p. 937.
11. Goldstone, Birdmen, p. 140.
12. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 2, 1906–1948, p. 925.
13. Ibid., p. 900.
14. Goldstone, Birdmen, p. 130.
15. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 2, 1906–1948, p. 954.
Chapter 25: Return to Eden—1908
1. Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (New York: Courier, 2013), p. 53.
Chapter 26: The Injunction—1910
1. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (New York: Ballantine, 2015), p. 149.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 262.
5. Ibid., p. 180.
6. Ibid., p. 181.
7. Ibid., p. 185.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., p. 186.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., p. 189.
13. Ibid., p. 181.
14. Ibid., p. 182.
Chapter 27: Warped by the Desire for Great Wealth—1911
1. David McCullo
ugh, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), p. 203.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., p. 204.
4. Ibid., p. 207.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 219.
7. Ibid., p. 224.
8. Ibid., p. 221.
9. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 2, 1906–1948 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 862.
10. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (New York: Random House, 2014), p. 202.
11. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 2, 1906–1948, p. 962.
12. Ibid., p. 972.
13. Ibid., p. 979.
14. Ibid., p. 981.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., p. 983.
Chapter 28: Final Flight—1912
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 447.
2. Fred Howard, Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (New York: Courier, 2013), p. 380.
3. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 447.
4. Marvin Wilks McFarland, The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright: Including the Chanute-Wright Letters and Other Papers of Octave Chanute, vol. 2, 1906–1948 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001), p. 1043.
5. Ibid., p. 1044.
6. Flying Association, “Flying,” Journal of the Flying Association 1 (1912), p. 52, cited in Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 449.
7. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 451.
8. Ibid., p. 460.
9. “Wright Curtiss Litigation Ended, Patent Upheld,” Aeronautics 14, January 31, 2014, p. 21.
10. Ibid.
11. McFarland, Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright, vol. 2, 1906–1948, p. 1073.
12. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (New York: Random House, 2014), p. 262.
13. Ibid.
Chapter 29: The Great Flood—1914
1. Lawrence Goldstone, Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (New York: Random House, 2014), p. 262.
2. Ibid., p. 450.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 454.
6. Roz Young, “Mabel Beck's Story,” Dayton Daily News, November 20, 1993.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
Chapter 30: To Fly Again—1914
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys, A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 485.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 486.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.