Links to George Spratt-related Websites

This educational site is devoted to publishing a day-by-day account of the progress of the Wright Brothers in developing their pioneering aircraft.  It contains several pages which focus on the relationship of George Spratt to the Wright Brothers.

This page discusses George Spratt's background and the efforts by the Wright Brothers to get him to return to their camp in 1902:

http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/history1_1902t64.html

This page discusses the concept of the "tangential" - a force determined from George Spratt's drift balance which, when added to the angle of attack, gave the the gliding angle for any wing shape:

http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/history1_1902t77.html

This page reviews the important contribution made by George Spratt's innovative lift and drag testing device (which also determined the center of aerodynamic pressure acting on the object):

http://wings.avkids.com/Book/Wright/history1_1902t82.html

Pictures of George Spratt on the website of Freewing Aerial Robotics Corporation, a modern controlwing aircraft developer:

http://www.freewing.com/misc.html

The Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company

Chronology of the Wright Brothers developments mentioning George Spratt:

http://www.first-to-fly.com/History/History%20of%20Airplane/theroad.htm