Editing Wright brothers (section)

===Orville===
[[File:Orville Wright-1928.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Orville Wright, 1928]]
Orville succeeded to the presidency of the Wright Company upon Wilbur's death. He won the prestigious [[Collier Trophy]] in 1914 for development of his automatic stabilizer on the brothers' [[Wright Model E]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Orville Wright receives the Collier trophy for stabilizer |newspaper=The Dayton Herald |location=Dayton, Ohio |date=February 6, 1914 |page=14 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36620294/the_dayton_herald/ |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Sharing Wilbur's distaste for business but not his brother's executive skills, Orville sold the company in 1915. The Wright Company then became part of [[Wright-Martin]] in 1916.

After 42&nbsp;years living at their residence on 7&nbsp;Hawthorn Street, Orville, Katharine, and their father, Milton, moved to Hawthorn Hill in spring&nbsp;1914. Milton died in his sleep on April 3, 1917, at age&nbsp;88. Up until his death, Milton had been very active, preoccupied with reading, writing articles for religious publications and enjoying his morning walks. He had also marched in a Dayton Woman's Suffrage Parade, along with Orville and Katharine.<ref>McCullough, 2015, "The Wright Brothers", p. 257.</ref>

Orville made his last flight as a pilot on May 13, 1918 in a 1911 Model&nbsp;B. This event was filmed with the motion picture camera and Orville was accompanied in the air by Wright Company instructor Howard Rinehart flying the first US built DH-4.<ref>[http://earlyaviators.com/erinehar.htm EarlyAviators.com] Howard Max Rinehart]</ref><ref>[http://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/de-havilland-dh-4/nasm_A19190051000  Original first production DH-4 in the National Air & Space Museum] This machine was flown by Howard Rinehart on May 13, 1918 at Orville's final flight as a pilot</ref>  He retired from business and became an elder statesman of aviation, serving on various official boards and committees, including the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] (NACA),{{efn|The [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics]] (NACA) was the predecessor agency to the [[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA).}} and Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce (ACCA).{{efn|The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce (ACCA) was the predecessor to the [[Aerospace Industries Association]] (AIA).}}

Katharine married Henry Haskell of Kansas City, a former Oberlin classmate, in 1926. Orville was furious and inconsolable, feeling he had been betrayed by his sister Katharine.<ref>McCullough, 2015, "The Wright Brothers", Epilogue p. 258</ref> He refused to attend the wedding or even communicate with her. He finally agreed to see her, apparently at Lorin's insistence, just before she died of pneumonia on March 3, 1929.

Orville Wright served in the [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]] for 28&nbsp;years. In 1930, he received the first Daniel Guggenheim Medal established in 1928 by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. In 1936, he was elected a member of the [[National Academy of Sciences]]. In 1939, President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] issued a presidential proclamation which designated the anniversary of Orville's birthday as [[National Aviation Day]], a [[Holidays of the United States|national observation]] that celebrates the development of aviation.

On April 19, 1944, the second production [[Lockheed Constellation]], piloted by [[Howard Hughes]] and [[Trans World Airlines|TWA]] president [[Jack Frye]], flew from [[Burbank, California]], to Washington, D.C., in 6&nbsp;hours and 57&nbsp;minutes (2,300&nbsp;mi, 330.9&nbsp;mph). On the return trip, the airliner stopped at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base|Wright Field]] to give Orville Wright his last airplane flight, more than 40&nbsp;years after his historic first flight.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parker |first=Dana T. |year=2013 |title=Building Victory: Aircraft manufacturing in the Los Angeles area in World War&nbsp;II |page=66 |place=Cypress, California |isbn=978-0-9897906-0-4}}</ref> He may even have briefly handled the controls. He commented that the wingspan of the Constellation was longer than the distance of his first flight.<ref name=yenne>Yenne 1987, pp. 44–46.</ref>

[[File:Grave of the Wright brothers, Woodland Cemetery chapel, Dayton, Ohio.jpg|thumb|upright|200px|The Wright family plot at [[Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum]]]]
Orville's last major project was supervising the reclamation and preservation of the 1905 ''[[Wright Flyer III]]'', which historians describe as the first practical airplane.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wright Flyer III|url=https://www.asme.org/About-ASME/Engineering-History/Landmarks/224-Wright-Flyer-III|access-date=2021-12-17|website=www.asme.org|language=en}}</ref>

Orville expressed sadness in an interview years later about the death and destruction brought about by the bombers of World War&nbsp;II:<ref>McCullough, 2015, "The Wright Brothers", Epilogue pp. 260–261</ref>
{{Blockquote|text=We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong ... No, I don't have any regrets about my part in the invention of the airplane, though no one could deplore more than I do the destruction it has caused. I feel about the airplane much the same as I do in regard to fire. That is, I regret all the terrible damage caused by fire, but I think it is good for the human race that someone discovered how to start fires and that we have learned how to put fire to thousands of important uses.}}

Orville died at age&nbsp;76 on January 30, 1948, over 35&nbsp;years after his brother, following his second heart attack, having lived from the horse-and-buggy age to the dawn of [[supersonic]] flight.<ref>[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iIXmigN2LQw/VaMrGhxy2EI/AAAAAAAABIg/bEoVV9sTTwo/s1600/NCR%2BOrville0001.jpg "NCR Loses a Close Friend"] ''NCR Factory News''. February–March 1948, p. 3 (tribute by National Cash Register Company) Retrieved March 23, 2016</ref> Both brothers are buried in the family plot at [[Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio]].<ref name=NYTOrville>"Orville Wright, 76, is dead in Dayton; co-inventor with his brother, Wilbur, of the airplane was pilot in first flight"&nbsp;– ''[[The New York Times]]'' obituary. January 31, 1948. Retrieved July 21, 2007. "[[Dayton, Ohio]], October 30, 1948, Orville Wright, who with his brother, the late Wilbur Wright, invented the airplane, died here tonight at 10:40 in [[Miami Valley Hospital]]. He was 76&nbsp;years old."</ref> [[John T. Daniels]], the Coast Guardsman who took their famous first flight photo, died the day after Orville.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hodgins |first=Eric |date=December 6, 1931 |title=Heavier than air |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1930/12/13/heavier-than-air |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=December 17, 2018}}</ref>