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WRIGHT, Orville. Typed letter signed ("Orville Wright") to Senator [Hiram] Bingham of Connecticut, Lambert Island, Ontario, 31 July 1932. 1 full page, 4to, embossed stationery, receipt stamp in upper corner.
WRIGHT RESIGNS FROM THE CONTEST COMMITTEE OF THE N. A. A. Orville was a charter member of the National Aeronautic; Association (founded in 1922), which oversaw the licensing of pilots and the impartial verification of flight records. Here, Wright explains that the Senator's letter was finally been forwarded to his camp, but "some additional delay in answering...is due to my general inability to get writing done. I am sorry that I will not be able to be in Washington for the N.A.A. [National Aeronautical Association] meetings...These come at an awkward time of the year for me. I have not been able to attend any of the meetings, nor race meets, since the time of holding them has been changed to August and September. My name has appeared as chairman of the contest committee this year, though I have not been present at a single meeting. My absence from meetings has been due to inability to be present, not from lack of interest. In a talk with you...I explained my attitude with regard to letting my name appear as a member of committee whose meetings I can not personally attend. At that time I agreed to let my name remain on the list of members of the contest committee until the next annual meeting of the Association, with the understanding that it would then be dropped without attracting the attention of certain enemies of yours and the Association's as might be attracted by a resignation. In appointing the next committee please omit my name entirely...."
Senator Bingham was the principal sponsor of a $50,000 Congressional appropriation in 1927 to erect a monument to the Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk , N.C., site of their first successful flights. The granite tower was dedicated in November 1932. (2)
WRIGHT RESIGNS FROM THE CONTEST COMMITTEE OF THE N. A. A. Orville was a charter member of the National Aeronautic; Association (founded in 1922), which oversaw the licensing of pilots and the impartial verification of flight records. Here, Wright explains that the Senator's letter was finally been forwarded to his camp, but "some additional delay in answering...is due to my general inability to get writing done. I am sorry that I will not be able to be in Washington for the N.A.A. [National Aeronautical Association] meetings...These come at an awkward time of the year for me. I have not been able to attend any of the meetings, nor race meets, since the time of holding them has been changed to August and September. My name has appeared as chairman of the contest committee this year, though I have not been present at a single meeting. My absence from meetings has been due to inability to be present, not from lack of interest. In a talk with you...I explained my attitude with regard to letting my name appear as a member of committee whose meetings I can not personally attend. At that time I agreed to let my name remain on the list of members of the contest committee until the next annual meeting of the Association, with the understanding that it would then be dropped without attracting the attention of certain enemies of yours and the Association's as might be attracted by a resignation. In appointing the next committee please omit my name entirely...."
Senator Bingham was the principal sponsor of a $50,000 Congressional appropriation in 1927 to erect a monument to the Wright Brothers at Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk , N.C., site of their first successful flights. The granite tower was dedicated in November 1932. (2)