Click here to read the “Smithsonian-Wright Agreement” (aka Smithsonian-Wright Contract) signed November 27, 1948, by Smithsonian and Orville Wright’s executors, in order to obtain the alleged original Wright Flyer as an exhibit at Smithsonian for $1. It requires recognition of Orville Wright and the Wright Flyer of 1903 as “first in powered flight” to the exclusion of all others and is still in force today. Learn more at links below.