WRIGHT BROTHERS Aeroplane Company

 

or  those of you who would like to build a Wright Kite to help celebrate the 2003 Centennial or Flight, the 2002 Centennial of Controlled Flight, or just for your own enjoyment, the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company has posted the engineering drawings we developed for the 1899 Wright Kite below. We have also posted the plans for our Not Quite Wright Kite, a 5/8 scale model of the historic kite with flat wings covered with Silkspan. (This makes the kite a great deal easier and more economical to build and fly.) We offer these free for you to download.

This is a wonderful project not just for those who enjoy building historical kite, but also for young people. If you're a teacher or a youth leader, we conduct workshops to build the Note Quite Wright Kite and have found its well suited for kids from Grade 5 on up. Use these plans and distribute them with our good wishes.

However, remember these are copyrighted plans and the copyright holder (us) claims all privileges and protection afforded by law. If you use or distribute these plans, you are bound to these conditions: 

• You may not sell or profit from these plans. 
• You cannot charge copying, handling, postage, or shipping fees. If we can contribute dozens of hours of research, you can kick in a little paper and postage.
• If you find a mistake on these drawings, you are honor-bound to let us know so we can correct it and make the plans better for those who come after you.
• If you know of or discover better methods or additional suppliers of materials for building this glider other than those we describe in the plans or on this web site, you are honor-bound to tell us so we can distribute the information and continue to make this project a better experience, especially for the young people who participate.
• You may make single copies for friends and acquaintances, but you may not publish these plans and offer them to the public in any form, electronic or paper, without written permission of the copyright holder.

There are 2 sheets of drawings for the historic replica and 1 sheet for the Not Quite Wright Kite, shown in thumbnails below. To save the sheets to your computer, right click on the thumbnail and choose "Save Target As" (in Explorer) or "Save Link As" (in Navigator) from the pop-up menu that appears. Save the JPEG file to a folder on your hard drive. These are big files; some pages are more than 1 meg. So it may take a while to download the entire set, depending on the speed of your modem.

	Wright Kite elevations, Page 1 of 2.
	Wright Kite details, Page 2 of 2.
	Not Quite Wright Kite elevations and details, Page 1 of 1.

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