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Museums Exhibiting Wright Experience™ Aircraft

"Museums give us what we need: Places to recognize our supporters, audiences eager to learn, and education departments that can take full advantage of our airplanes." — Ken Hyde

College Park (MD) Aviation Museum
www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com

Fort Rucker (AL) Aviation Museum
www.rucker.army.mil/usaace/museum.html

National Air and Space Museum
www.nasm.si.edu

Museum of Flight, Seattle
www.museumofflight.org

Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, NC
www.nps.gov/wrbr

The United States Naval Academy
www.usna.edu

News Media

AOPA News, June 2012

"The Wright stuff: How to tame a horse." First-person narrative and video of Sarah Brown's experience "doing what the Wright brothers did" flying the Wright Experience 1902 glider with Kitty Hawk Kites hang gliding school.
http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2012/120614the-wright-stuff-how-to-tame-a-horse.html

Air & Space Magazine, July 2012

"Orville, Wilbur and Me" by Phil Scott tells of a new offering at Kitty Hawk NC: Lessons in the glider built by the Wright Experience for pilot testing in 2003. Read all about it:
www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Orville-Wilburand-Me-162924306.html

Public Broadcasting System's NOVA

Feature on the Wright Experience™
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/replicas.html

Program description of "Wright Brothers' Flying Machine":
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/about.html

Resources for Further Study

Original Aircraft

The National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC

The Franklin Institute, Philadephia

The Carillon Historical Park, Dayton OH

Photographs

The Library of Congress Digital Collection of Wright Brothers Negatives

Wright State University Archives

Wright History

Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, NC

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI

Dayton (OH) Aviation Heritage National Historical Park