7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
Chapter 31: Hammondsport, New York—1915
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 486.
2. Ibid., p. 489.
3. Ibid.
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. 1090.
5. Ibid., p. 1091.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., p. 1092.
10. Ibid.
11. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 487.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 492.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 481.
Chapter 32: Middle of the Atlantic Ocean—1928
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. 247.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 491.
Chapter 33: A Test of Wills—1930
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 492.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 493.
5. Ibid., p. 488.
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. 115.
7. 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. 737.
8. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 488.
9. Ibid., p. 490.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 491.
14. Ibid., p. 492.
15. Ibid.
Chapter 34: The Lone Eagle—1934
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 493.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., p. 494.
4. Ibid.
5. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 495.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 487.
8. Ibid., p. 493.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., p. 494.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., p. 495.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Susan Hertog, Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (New York: Anchor, 2000), p. 345.
16. Ibid., p. 324.
17. Ibid.
18. Crouch, Bishop's Boys, p. 495.
19. Ruth Sarles, A Story of America First: The Men and Women Who Opposed US Intervention in World War II (New York: Greenwood, 2003), p. 56.
20. Max Wallace, The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (New York: St. Martin's, 2003), p. 374.
Chapter 35: The Battle of Britain—1940
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 496.
Chapter 36: The Authorized Biography—1943
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 520.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 521.
6. Ibid.
Chapter 37: Washington, DC—1943
1. Fred Howard, Wilbur And Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers (New York: Courier, 2013), p. 440.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
Chapter 38: Mabel Beck—1948
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 503.
2. Ibid., p. 431.
Epilogue
1. Tom D. Crouch, The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), p. 529.
2. Ibid., p. 527.
3. Roz Young, “Mabel Beck's Story, Part of the Wright Brothers’ Story,” Dayton Daily News, November 20, 1993; Roz Young, “Mabel Alone after Orville's Death,” Dayton Daily News, December 11, 1993.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.; “Letters of Love: Correspondence Reveals Orville's Feelings for Mabel,” Dayton Daily News, January 22, 1994.
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Addams, Jane, 95
Ader, Clement, 168
Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), 187
Aero Club de France, 168, 209
Aero Club of America, 185–86
aerodromes (Langley flyer), 42–46, 50, 64, 115, 160–64, 171–72, 219, 223–25, 226–31, 240
Aeronautical Annual, 53, 59, 61
Aeronautical Society of America, 203, 204
ailerons, 203, 218, 256
airplane. See Wright Flyer
airplane production, 210
airplanes. See powered flight, invention of
Albemarle Sound, Outer Banks, NC, 79, 83, 84, 103, 215
Aldrin, Buzz, 179
Allegheny Observatory, 43
aluminum block engine, 154–
55, 167
America First Committee, 243
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 48–49
Ames, Joseph, 235, 238
anarchism, 113
anemometer, 110, 120
angle of incidence, 111, 119, 148
“Angle of Incidence” (Wright, Wilbur), 111, 116
Animal Locomotion or Walking, Swimming, and Flying with a Dissertation on Aeronautics (Pettigrew), 57
Animal Mechanism, 54, 56, 135
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 133, 229
Ark (boat), 43, 44
Arnold, General, 249–50
Associated Press (AP), 190
Astor, John Jacob, 185–86
automobile, the, 52, 65
Automobile Club, 185
Aviation, 235, 238
Aviation Experiment Association (AEA), 197–98
“Aviation's Greatest Controversy” (Brewer), 237
Baden-Powell, Major Baden Fletcher Smyth, 209
Baldwin, George, 194
Baldwin, Thomas S., 114–15, 185
Balzer, Stephen M., 65
Barthou, Louis, 209
Baum, Elijah, 86
Beacham, Thomas, 172
Beachey, Lincoln J., 223, 224
Beck, Charles, 30
Beck, Edna, 262
Beck, Lena, 30
Beck, Mabel
Charles Lindbergh and, 232, 252
concern about World War II bombing and, 244, 245
death, 262
education, 30
Fred Kelly on, 24–25
Great Flood of 1914 and, 222
having charge over things, 24–25, 28
hired by the Wright brothers, 30
knowing the “real story,” 27
letter amending Orville's will and, 31, 245, 247, 251, 253, 262
love letters from Orville Wright, 262–63
Orville's niece on, 28–29
Orville's will and, 31, 262
photo of Orville and, 30, 253
romantic relationship with Orville, 29–30
shipping the Wright Flyer to London and, 232, 234, 252–53
Bell, Alexander Graham
Aero Club of America, 186
Aviation Experiment Association, 197
crash of 1908 and, 199
examining Wright Flyer, 196, 200
interest/pursuits with powered flight, 42, 59, 186–87
kite built by, 186
Mabel Beck on, 252
Samuel Langley/Langley flyer and, 42–43, 44, 45, 46, 64, 224
Selfridge's funeral and, 200
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