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The 1914 Tests of the Langley “Aerodrome”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

C. G. Abbot
C. G. Abbot*
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution
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Extract

It is everywhere acknowledged that the Wright brothers were the first to make sustained flights in a heavier-than-air machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903.

Mainly because of acts and statements of former officers of the Smithsonian Institution, arising from tests made with the reconditioned Langley plane of 1903 at Hammondsport, New York, in 1914, Dr. Orville Wright feels that the Institution adopted an unfair and injurious attitude. He therefore sent the original Wright Kitty Hawk plane to England in 1928.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 46 , Issue 384 , December 1942 , pp. 291 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1942

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References

Note on page No 291 * For an account of early Langley and Wright aeronautical investigations, see Smithsonian Report for 1900 and The Century Magazine of September, 1908.

Note on page No 292 * Smithsonian Reports: 1914, pp. 9, 219, 221, 222; 1915, pp. 14, 121; 1917, p. 4; 1918, pp 3, 28, 114, 166. Report of U.S. National Museum, 1914, pp. 46 and 47.