WRight Perspective - Article Two of Four
The W Right Perspective – Article Two by Joe Bullmer The Wright Brothers, left to right, Wilbur and Orville, at their home in Dayton, Ohio. As pointed out in the introduction to the first article in this series , the impressively technical Smithsonian publication The Wright Flyer, An Engineering Perspective, (hereafter referred to as the Perspective ), [full text found here] has influenced the beliefs of many interested in early Wright aircraft. But the Perspective compilation includes many non-technical and some technical statements and opinions that contradict information in the Wrights’ records and in this author’s book The WRight Story. The purpose of this series of articles is to present this author’s positions on these differences. In addition to other material, over twelve hundred pages of the surviving records of the Wrights’ work were studied to create The WRight Story. Consequently it corrects dozens of common misconceptions concerning t