Wright Resources

This is an on-going developing page.  If you have materials that you believe should be included, please email us at 1903@firstflightfoundation.org.

TEACHERS
For curriculum materials, please visit this page of the National Park Service/WBNM.
NPS also provides FEE WAIVERS for school groups and related educational organizations and programs.

An online Engineering the Wright Way game.

For research and “flight plan” for that is the Wright Brothers, we suggest beginning with the resources and staff at Wright State University regarding the Wright Collection.

National Park Service

Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company 

Carolinas Aviation Museum

National Aviation Heritage Area

The Wright Collections of Wright State University

Wright Family Foundation

The Henry Ford

United States Air Force Academy  

National Museum of the US Air Force

North Carolina Museum of History  

North Carolina Transportation Museum

Armstrong Air & Space Museum

Otto Lilienthal Museum

Dayton Engineers Club

The Franklin Institute 

The Henry Ford  

The Library of Congress

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

National Aviation Hall of Fame

Soaring Cafe

Soaring Society of America

National Soaring Museum

Foundation for Free Flight

Vintage Sailplane Association

Academy of Model Aeronautics

Museum of Flight

First Flight Society

USHPA, Unit9ed States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association

AEROFILES, A century of American Aviation, the planes  and the people.

Aero-News Net, daily aviation news and events listings

AOPA, the world’s largest pilot association, Sponsor of the Pilot Facilty at Wright Brothers National Memorial

Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission (CHAC)

National Aeronautic Association

Books

The Bishop Boys, Dr. Tom Crouch

The Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright, Edited by Peter Jakab and Rick Young

The Wright Brothers , A biography by Fred G. Kelley

Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910 by Julie Hedgepeth Williams