That's a 1901 article.  They couldn't get published after 1903.

Wilbur Wright, Recent Experiments in Gliding Flight, November 1903
***I can't find this article.  There is one with the exact same title from
1897 by Octave Chanute.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Wright brothers had to publish their results in a beekeepers journal.
>>
>
> No. They published in the J. Western Society of Engineers, which was a
> top-notch journal. They published two papers:
>
> Wilbur Wright, Some Aeronautical Experiments, Sept. 18, 1901
>
> http://invention.psychology.msstate.edu/i/Wrights/library/Aeronautical.html
>
> (This is really good. You should read it.)
>
> Wilbur Wright, Recent Experiments in Gliding Flight, November 1903
>
> The Scientific American and many other mainstream publications did reject
> the claims.
>
> The article in Gleanings in Bee Culture was written by the publisher of
> that journal, A. I. Root, who was a remarkable individual. That article is
> here:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wright/reporter.html
>
> That journal is still being published. The title has changed but it has
> been published continuously:
>
> http://www.beeculture.com/
>
> - Jed
>
>

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