From Ian Jacobs and Lilli Pilli
Feedback refers to “the first ever full-scale replica of the Wright Flyer”
(Feedback, 30 May).
I am afraid you have been misinformed. The Wright brothers
themselves sold several working replicas before the First World War.
Somewhat later, the original Flyer finished up in the Science Museum at South
Kensington in London, because no American museum would take it at the time. I
gazed upon it many times there during the 1930s, and read the plaque mounted in
front of it. Some time in the late 1930s it was returned to the US after some
hard feelings were expressed, and replaced by a full-scale replica, which I have
also gazed upon many times, and read the new plaque explaining what had
happened. If you visit the museum, you can also gaze upon it.
NSW, Australia
