Wright Brothers (Orville & Wilbur) — "I believe that my course in sending our Kitty Hawk machine to a foreign museum i…"

I believe that my course in sending our Kitty Hawk machine to a foreign museum is the only way of correcting the history of the flying machine, which by false and misleading statements has been perverted by the Smithsonian Institution.
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Orville Wright, in a letter to the Smithsonian, explaining his decision to send the Flyer to a London museum due to a dispute over historical credit.

Date: 1928

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