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Title The 1914 Test of the Langley "Aerodrome."
Personal Name Abbot, Charles G.
Pages 8 pp. + illus. (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 103, no. 8 and its Publication 3699)
Publisher Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, October 24, ,1942
Publication Year October 24, 1942
Open Term Wright-Smithsonian Institution Controversy
Abstract Reprinted in Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1942 , Washington: Government Printing Office, 1943, pp. 111-118; U.S. Air Services , Nov. 1942, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 12-15; Kelly, Fred C., The Wright Brothers , New York; Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943, pp. 324-333, and reprinted in part in American Aviation Daily , Oct. 30, 1942, vol. 23, pp. 290-291; American Aviation , Nov. 15, 1942, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 17, 19; Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences , Jan. 1943, vol. 10, pp. 31-35; Aerosphere 1943 . . . edited by Glenn D. Angle, New York: Aerosphere, Inc., 1944, pp. CXIII-CXV. Statement by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution correcting assertions and actions of former Smithsonian officials relative to the 1914 test of the Langley "aerodrome." Statement was submitted to Orville Wright who accepted it as basis for closing the prolonged Wright-Smithsonian controversy, provided it was "given adequate publication."
   
 



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