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 ...under control, and landed it safely again, was
made less than half a century ago. The date was Decem-
ber 17th, 1903, the place Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the
machine the Wright biplane, and the man Orville Wright.
Several 'ears elapsed before the world in general re-
ceived convincing proof that Wilbur and Orville Wright
really could fly, and when it was finally established beyond
doubt that Or...
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 ... JANUARY 16, 1909.
Orville Wright on the Cost of Upkeep.
SPEAKING to a press representative before he
left America to join his brother Wilbur in France,
Orville Wright made the interesting statement th...
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 ...y contretemps, Wilbur Wright
displayed the utmost calm, not to say unconcern, and
effected a landing with the same security as if everything
had been in perfect working order.
Orville Wright Ballooning,
THE balloon and the aeroplane can never be rivals,
according to Orville Wright, who has just had his first
experience of the former pastime. The mastery of...
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 ... young people.
Departure of the PioneerA
LL who revere the memory of the Wright brothers
must feel a touch of sadness at the removal from
the Science Museum, South Kensington, of the
biplane on which Orville Wright made his historic first
free power-driven flight at Kitty Hawk on December
17th, 1903.
The original Wright biplane has occupied the place
of honour in the Science Museum for twenty year...
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 ...
kept on this level,
slowly and gracefully
the famous American
flying high. He flew
ascending spiral until
about 4.30 p.m. when the Crown Prince arrived, and
Orville Wright was in the air having a practice run after
giving lessons to his pupils, Lieut. Engelhardt and Herr
Keidel. When he came down, the Prince took the seat
on Orville's ri...
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 ...At the conclusion of the long flight the cross-Channel
hero was warmly praised by the Archduke Joseph, who
led him to the Royal box and presented him to the
Archduchess. .. ,.
Orville Wright Leaves Germany.
ON Saturday last Orville Wright and his sister left
Berlin for Paris, where a week was to be spent before
coming back to England. The day before he lef...
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 ...to Frankfort at the conclusion of the
Brescia meeting. Already it is announced that a dozen
promises of active support have been obtained. Endea-
vours are also being made to induce Orville Wright to
make some exhibition flights in the grounds.
A Meeting at Nice.
ALTHOUGH the proposal to hold an aviation meeting
at Nice last winter fell through, active pre...
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 ...s,
Lovelace and Lachapelle. The train in which Orville
Wright and his sister were travelling came into collision
with another train, and was very badly wrecked, but once
again Orville Wright escaped with his life, and this time
happily without injury; in fact, he and his sister were
only delayed for a matter of five hours in reaching their
.destination. In...
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 ...AY 30, 1940
A VISIT to AMERICA in WARTIME
Red Tape, Dollars and Torpedoes : At the Home of Orville Wright
THERE are many difficulties invisiting America in wartime,the chief being red tape, dol-
lars and torpedoes; and the greatest
of these is dollars.
In the first place, the steamship
fare...
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 ...ld-wide celebration of the Golden
Jubilee of flying.
The United States will hold a celebration at Kitty Hawk,
where a monument has been erected on the sand dunes to
mark the spot where Wilbur and Orville Wright made the
first successful power-driven controlled flight in history, on
December 17th, 1903. In the United Kingdom the Royal
Aeronautical Society are planning a representative dinner...
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 ...kely that with such
stabilizing devices as the Bell bar and the Hiller servo
rotor, sufficient stability may be provided to make the
helicopter suitable for all but the very worst weather
conditions.
Orville WrightA
VIATION the world over mourns the death, on
January 30th, of the first man to make a con-
trolled flight in a power-driven, heavier-than-air
aircraft. On that day Orville Wright passed...
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 ...ly acquire Wright aeroplanes and
that the famous American brothers will themselves
instruct the first pupils in England.
The speeches at the functions which Messrs. Wilbur
and Orville Wright attended on Monday and Tuesday
evenings were of more than passing interest, particularly
those that were made at the banquet given by the Aero
Club. Lord Roberts sent ...
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 ...UNE 24TH, 1943 FLIGHT Advertisements. 25-
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WRIGHT BIPLANE
In 1910 the first Jablo Propeller was made to Orville Wright's design
for the most famous aircraft of all time—the Wright Biplane.
In 1943—si ill going strong—jablo Propellers Ltd. make the standard
Propeller Blade for the best-known aeroplanes ....
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 ...iety had kept in regular
correspondence with the brothers and Chanute. In April 1904
the Journal published an accurate account of these first flights,
sent to the President, Major Baden Powell, by Orville Wright
himself.
The world had almost forgotten the Wrights when, in 1908,
Orville in America and Wilbur in France, began flying again,
Orville to satisfy the United States War Department t...
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 ...LIGHT, 16 July 1954
We are on the
side of Wright
Our fleets of Hermes, Vikings and Dakotas
are a far cry from Orville Wright's
heavier-than-air nightmare—
—but for 25 years we too have
pioneered aeronautically
in many ways—
—carrying strange cargoes
to stranger places (2 white
rhinos we took to Antwerp...
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 ...LIGHT 1 JANUARY 1954
Jubileeve in flying?
1903 Orville Wright flew for 12 seconds
1953 to the Cape by Canberra (Rolls-Royce engines)
SHELL-MEX AND B.P. LTD., Shell-Mex House, Strand, London, W.C.2.
Distributors in the United Kingdom for the She...
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 ... JULY 31, 1909.
AVIATION NEWS OF THE
Orville Wright Flies for an Hour with Lieut. Lahm.
ON Thursday of last week Orville Wright at Fort
Myer made two good flights, and during the second a
speed of 54^ miles an hour was ...
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 ...ld.
12 3 4 The Wright Bros, leaving the Smithsonian Institution after the Presentation of the Langley Medal.
1. Secretary Chas. D. Walcott. 2, Mr. Wilbur Wright. 3. Dr. A. Graham Bell.
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4, Mr, Orville Wright...
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 ...n with High Speed Flight.
Edward Busk Memorial Prize (most valuable contribution on appliedaerodynamics appearing in one of the Society's publications): Mr. I. M.
Davidson, for his paper The Jet Flap.Orville Wright Prize (most valuable contribution to The Aeronautical
Quarterly on some subject of a technical nature in connection withaeronautics): Dr. B. S. Stratford, for his papers on the jet flap...
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 ...riod.
How Two Types of Air Filters Have Prolonged Engine Life : Dust-
retaining Capacities from 20 to 45 per Cent*
By C. G. VOKES, A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.Ae.E.
ON the morning of December 17th, 1903, Orville Wright made the first flight in the history of the world in a machine heavier than air at Kittyhawk,
£k>rth Carolina; on the night of December 17th, 1943, " a
rge force of our bombers" made ...
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