WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948). Typed letter signed (“Orville Wright”) to Earl Findley (1878-1956), Dayton, 13 June 1923.

WRIGHT, Orville (1871-1948). Typed letter signed (“Orville Wright”) to Earl Findley (1878-1956), Dayton, 13 June 1923.

Two pages, 267 x 185mm, on Wright’s personal stationery (minor soiling).

“I am getting terribly suspicious of all the articles I read in aeronautical magazines these days!” Wright takes issue with a recent article, in which he was mistakenly quoted in reference to the T-2 engine and its performance laps: “There was not one-hundredth of a kilometer per hour difference in their speeds at any distance.” Wright notes, “This statement is made in the face of the fact that in the preceding paragraph it is shown the times of the different laps over the 50 kilometer course varied from 21 minutes 53 seconds to 28 minutes 30 seconds – a difference of 31.83 kilometers per hour.” He goes on to list “a number of other prominent Americans” (among them Secretary Denby, James M. Curley, and others) who have “acquired exactly the same literary style” as the author of the article, and closes “I am making a fight against the National Aeronautic Association trying to edit all of our aeronautical papers.”

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE WRIGHT BROTHERS AND LINDBERGH PAPERS OF AVIATION JOURNALIST, EARL FINDLEY