Wright Brothers, Wrong Story by William Hazelgrove

Author:William Hazelgrove
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633884595
Publisher: Prometheus Books

We left Kitty Hawk at daybreak on last Tuesday and reached home at 3 PM on Friday after a very exciting but tiresome trip…. Into the last ten days of practice we crowded more glides than in all the weeks preceding. In two days we made about two hundred and fifty…. This practice enabled us to very greatly increase our skill in the management of the machine…. We received a letter from Mr. Langley a few days before we finished our experiments at Kitty Hawk, a telegram and afterwards a letter inquiring whether there would be time for him to reach us and witness some of our trials before we left. We replied that it would scarcely be possible as we were intending to break camp in a few days. He made no mention of his experiments on the Potomac.10

The fact that the secretary of the Smithsonian was willing to trudge down to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to watch a couple of bicycle mechanics experimenting with their glider shows that from a very early stage Secretary Langley was aware of their progress. They had stayed at Kitty Hawk for two months and completed a thousand glides. Men like Spratt, Herring, and Chanute were astounded. The pictures of Wilbur gliding tell the tale, with his flyer making graceful turns against the barren sand. It was obvious that all he needed was something to power the plane. The brothers left their camp on October 28 in a chilly rain and walked the four miles to Kitty Hawk. Wilbur walked with his hands in his pockets, listening to the squish of his hard shoes. All he could think about now was building an engine to power the plane he had built.

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