Symposium Papers

Plenary Address

• "The Wright Brothers, Government Support for Aeronautical Research and the Progress of Aviation"
  Roger Launius, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Historian, Washington DC.

Inventing the Aeroplane: Dayton & Kitty Hawk

• Over a Herd of Cattle: The Wright Brothers and the Pursuit of Flight at Huffman Prairie Flying Field
  Elizabeth Fraterrigo, Loyola University, Chicago, IL.
• The Wright Stuff: The Mathematics of the Wright Brothers
  Robert N. McCullough, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI

Military Aviation Takes Flight

• Failure and Success at Ft. Myers, 1908-1909
  David Chenoweth, Air Force History and Museums Program, Washington, DC.

Witnessing Early Flight

• Witness to Flight: Aviation Achievements of the Wrights Described in Recently Discovered Letters Written by Their Contemporaries
  Stan Kandebo, Aviation week & Space Technology, New York, NY
• Rumors of Flight: The Photographic Record of the Wright Brothers in Flight
  Jeffrey Alan John, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
• The First Witness: Amos Root at Huffman Prairie
  James Tobin, Ann Arbot, MI.

Rediscovering the Wright Brothers: The Archaeological Evidence

• From Wright Flyers to Aerial Thermography: The 1910 Wright Brothers' Hangar at Huffman Prairie
  Michael Hargrave,U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, IL.

Home and Memory in Dayton

• Hawthorn Hill: The Wright Family Home
  Mary Oliver, Montgomery County Historical Society, Dayton, OH.

Marketing the Aeroplane at Home and Abroad

• Memory Strengthened or Forgotten? Wilbur Wright's Visits to Germany and the German Understanding of Aviation
  Guillaume de Syon, Albright College, Reading, PA.
• The First Aerial Canoe: Wilbur Wright and the Hudson Fulton Flights
  John Sanford, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.

Establishing the Legacy in Dayton

• On the Aviation Trail in the Wright Brothers' Neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio.
  Mary Ann Johnson, Aviation Trail, Inc., Dayton, OH