f you would like to build a 1901 Wright Glider to  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 our own replica below. There is just one sheet, but the information on it should be sufficient to build a replica or a model.

Please 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 hundreds 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.

To save the drawings 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. This is a big file so it may take a while to download, depending on the speed of your modem.

By the way -- we offer a four color version of this plan, printed 17 inches by 22 inches. See our page of WBAC Plans.

Three views of our 1901 Wright Glider replica in the sand on the North Carolina Outerbanks. For mor pics, see the 1901 Glider Replica in our Virtual Hangar.

Kiting the 1901 Wright Glider at Jockeys Ridge State Park in North Carolina (3 miles south of Kitty Hawk). If you'd like to see more of our flight tests, go to Flying the 1901.