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        The   W Right   Perspective – Article   Three By Joe Bullmer  The two illustrations including captions ( above) are from the publication The Wright Flyer, an Engineering Perspective    This is the third article in a series discussing the Smithsonian compilation document The Wright Flyer, An Engineering Perspectiv e , cover pictured below. *     [The two p revious] articles have addressed the section discussing the Wrights as aeronautical engineers and the section on aerodynamics, stability, and control.   This article discusses the third section, titled Longitudinal Dynamics of the Wright Brothers’ Early Flyers .     The purpose of these articles is to address differences that have been pointed out concerning information presented in this author's book The WRight Story and that presented in the Perspective.   The purpose of The WRight Story is to record an accurate descr...

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 wer...