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Interview with Ernest Dubel
Discusses Wright Brothers, J. Jacobs, early pilots, flight instructors and instruction, Glenn Martin, Charles Holt, Kettering Bug, Charlie Taylor, Edward A. (Colonel) Deeds, Charles Kettering, Wright-Curtiss controversy, World War I, and sabotage
Interview with John Wright
This transcript is part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted with people who knew and interacted with Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright and/or Charles F. Kettering. In this interview, the subject discusses the Kettering Bug, wind tunnels, first earth invector compass, a practical joke with a gyroscope, testing, patent and postwar developments on the Bug, the Geman V-1 in World War II, a Smithsonian incident regarding the Wright brothers, Charles F. Kettering, and no-knock gasoline
Interview with William Conover
Discusses Wright Brothers, airplanes, spark plugs, World War I, Edward A. (Colonel) Deeds, the Liberty engine, flying exhibitions, rotary valve mother, Kettering Bug, combination control, Curtiss, Kettering, and wind tunnel
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