The Smithsonian contract 11/23/1948

Historical source

Name

Description

The agreement (popularly called a "contract") in which the Smithsonian promised not to say that any airplane before the Wrights' was capable of manned, powered, controlled flight.

Types

Historical source

Author

Smithsonian Institution and the Wright Estate

Source category

Primary source

Referenced by

The Wright-Smithsonian Contract

History

Historical source

The Wright-Smithsonian contract may have prevented official recognition of an earlier flight than the Wright brothers

History

Claim