Are there any audio or motion picture recordings of Orville & Wilbur Wright talking about aviation?
December 17, 2010 by Action Warrior
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No. Of the two brothers, Wilbur Wright was the “PR Man” but he died in 1912 before the first movie sound recording equipment was available. Orville Wright died in 1948. He was a very reserved person with great dignity and declined to be interviewed on film or radio. Everything we know of what the Wright Brothers thought about aviation is from journals, notes and letters, and what other people who knew them recollected.
You can go here for a magazine interview from 1917, but you have to pay for it:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/1917/04/0031108