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5. Leaving to experts to formulate the conclusions arising from the 

 1914 tests as a whole, in view of all the facts, I repeat in substance, but 

 with amendments, what I have already published in Smithsonian Sci- 

 entific Series, Vol. 12, 1932, page 227: 



The flights of the Langley aerodrome at Hammondsport in 

 1914, having been made long after flying had become a common 

 art, and with changes of the machine indicated by Dr. Wright's 

 comparison as given above, did not warrant the statements pub- 

 lished by the Smithsonian Institution that these tests proved 

 that the large Langley machine of 1903 was capable of sustained 

 flight carrying a man. 



6. If the publication of this paper should clear the way for Dr. 

 Wright to bring back to America the Kitty Hawk machine to which 

 all the world awards first place, it will be a source of profound and 

 enduring gratification to his countrymen everywhere. Should he 

 decide to deposit the plane in the United States National Museum, 

 it would be given the highest place of honor, which is its due. 



