WRIGHT BROTHERS - Original Wright Flyer Drawing, assistance by Orville Wright

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WRIGHT BROTHERS - Original Wright Flyer Drawing, assistance by Orville Wright:
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Wright Brothers - Original Wright Flyer Component Drawing by LP Christman, w/assistance from Orville Wright

You are offerding on an originalcomponent drawing of the Wright Flyer drawn by Louis P. Christman, withassistance by Orville Wright. The mathematical data and other notes shown were done when Christman returned to Dayton and conferred with Colonel Edward Deeds and Orville Wright.

The original owner (Cowan sales) relates that these working drawings and notes/calculations were done before the final drawings of the reconstruction were produced.

Biographical and Historical Background

As an employee of National Cash Register, with his experience in aircraft and machine design, Louis P. Christman was called upon by prominent engineer and inventor, Colonel Edward Deeds, to undertake the restoration of the 1905 Wright Flyer, which resides at Carillon Park, Dayton, Ohio. Christman was given the opportunity to work closely with Orville Wright in order to produce an accurate set of drawings forthe 1903, 1904, and 1905 Wright Flyers. Since no complete drawings were ever produced by Orville and Wilbur Wright during the building and flying of the planes, it was required that Christman travel to Washington, D.C. to the Smithsonian Institution to take measurements and make drawings from the original 1903 Flyer that is displayed there and to discuss these drawings with Orville Wright.

Christman worked closely with Orville Wright to produce an accurate set of drawings. In creating plans for the 1903 Flyer, Christman traveled to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. to take measurements and make drawings from the original 1903 Flyer displayed there and later the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to study, and trace, informal drawings the Wright brothers had done. Back in Dayton, he would discuss these notes with Orville Wright. Continued meetings and conversations between Orville Wright and Christman resulted in a refined set of drawings of the numerous gliders and planes. Christman, under the direction of Deeds, then began the restoration of the 1905 Flyer in 1947, on the grounds of the National Cash Register Co. Final construction and assembly was completed at Carillon Historical Park, where the plane was reassembled and fabric was stretched. The plane is on display there today.

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