Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1925, Page 16

LANGLEY PLANE NOT MUTILATED, ALCOTT REPLIES TO WRIGHT landing. He knew wall that if this was accomplished the means to con- he Langley Aerodvnamical tinne would bhe available. Owing to - reopened for development | the wreck of October 1903, his s and 1t seemed advisable | means were exhausted bef make a thorough test of | flight. The rudder wciples involved in the con- | tests was, as previous flights with the ction of the Langley heavier-than.|auarter- models had shown. ade- han-carrying fiving machine, es-|quate to guide a flight even without a 8 ilot."” Ally the question s to the tandem | P ‘. { e bement of the planes and gen.| The Smithsonian Institution. Dr. eral stability. especially longitudinal | Walcott said, “fully recognizes the wlu\i e ‘lnm'n-l\ut‘ nged | Well deserved success of the Wright Glenn H. Curtiss for further! riments with the plane at num—I (Continued trom First Page.) h » propeilers were | ! t suftictent rust; 1 s made in the form ot the ; sensable 10 ; ; { tests of the| R machine result in| ) ut merely in hops.’ ald By Smithsonian. Smithson and that the institution | Sl on fle Mr. Curtiss' receipt | o payment made him in con- nne with the experimen | ot modificati | eside ] 300 pounds mach Restoration Is Explained. When was bronght from Ham- | 1914 tests,” he which had been trial flights by [ e by n who had buiit | rst place under < direction, to be as near- v possible ctly as ad designed them now on the machine iginal parts are Growing Girls’ Misses’ and Children’s Pump, in patent Iwodstrap and cut-out new Misses’ and Children’s Patent, Light Tan and Patent Extension the machine Misses’ and Children’s Light Tan Moccasins. Uskide extension soies and heels 5to 8... ...$1.95 damage or deteriora- . Wright realizes that ations’ are permissible and is shown by the fact that in the very next paragraph of his criti clsm to those ‘restorations’ he says, regarding the Wright machine ‘Our machine still possesses its original parts, with only a few re. placements. made necessary by an ac- cident s fourth flight, on De cember 1903, and by a slight dam age suffered in the Dayton flood of such * nece: Walcott said: “Langley’s whole was thrown to the single aim he got o | used in the 1903 | 'THE 'EVENING brothers in being the first to make |tion that the Langley plane could actual flights in heavier-thanair pow- er-propelled machines. “This recognition the institution was among the earliest to make in formal manner by an award of merit. This being so, 1 am not prepared to | concede that the Wrights were the to construct such a machine first capable of such flight." Tests had been conducted by Prof. | to the Wright Froth- ) t flight and the plane had been but without The Langley plane Lan, ers' fi cata a pilot, however. did not fly with a pilot until 1914 Hammondsport, but the tests 1903 and the v prior aulted into the air performance in 1914, with equipment not designed for it, have given the Smithsonian the posi- | by Orville and Wilbur Wright, which Boys’ /U. S. Keds Heavy rubber soles, ankle pateh: Jace to toe. dIn white and brown and all brown 11to2.....81.45 2%2t0 6....81.75 Plenty of Keds and children. for misses Boyvs' snd Little Boys' Tan and Gun Metal Oxfords, with broad toes. Goodyear welt— rubber hecls, crepe rubber soles . 9-131,—83.45 Boy Boys’ Tan Scout Shoes, sizes up to 6, $1.95 4026-/028 SEVENTH ST.NW. “Upper Sevemth Strect in Leention—City-Wide In Trade™ STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 'C, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1923. have flown with a pilot aboard. Smithsonian Institution, butlt tests on models and the actual plane. He Says. 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This beauti- ful pattern and jts low price should make every housewife want a set, Twenty-six pieces of wonder- ful silver in a beautiful sa lined chest. A GREAT VALUE 50c A WEEK! WRIGHT EXPLAINS STAND. Prof. Langley, as an official of :)’;l . plane in Washington and conducted the Potomac River with Would Not Care to Leave Crept Here, DAYTON. Ohio, May 1.—The Times Eng: land, is to be the permanent home of an historic American relic of aviation, invented | | | | | | | He kept the plane for 20 years, hoping to find a home for it in Amer- ica, he said, but uneasiness over dan- ger from fire, combined with en- treaties #rom friends in Englandz]ed to the offer to the English institutidn which already has an extensive avia- tion among these which seemed to be national enough in character was one to which T would not care to intrust the machine. ““This lack of confidence was the re- sult of the way the officers of this in- stitution had allowed the priceless relic of the Langley machine of 03 to be taken out of the museum in 1914 and | than Langley's has been the original materials of its structure | ;hel put on it to be mutiliated for the purposes of | \rye than the I private parties to a patent litigation. | chine still posse label now hanging on it i of the restored nor of machine. made its first flight December 17, 1903. In announcing that the machine would be sent across the Atlantic, Or- ville Wright said that several Ameri- cin ‘museums had asked for it. but thal e feare to trust it to the one 71 e institution among them which seemed | 11on $XRIDI all ¢ 168 r(‘:fx':;lma"l\‘;:me to be national in character because of | yi \Wriant sajd ) what he termed the mutilation ‘of the |~ " '\ Sy Langley machine of 1503. Mr. Wright Sought Home 20 Years. “¥or 20 years,” Mr. Wright's state: asserted that officials of the institu L tion had permitted this priceless relic | ment saic, “I have kept possession of | “The machine now hanging i the | with only I to be taken out ‘of the museum in |the machine in the hopes that a suit- | museum is not the original machine. | necessarv b 1914 and its original materials muti. |able home for it could be found in|but is mostly a new machine, with | fourth fiight lated in connection with a patent liti- ' America. 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