Wright Company

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The Wright Company (also Wright & Co. ) was the company founded by the Wright brothers in Dayton, Ohio in 1909 to manufacture and sell aircraft . The first well-known customer was the United States Army Signal Corps .

Production began initially, from February to November 1910, in a rented part of the factory facilities of the automobile manufacturer Speedwell Motor Car Company , until the company's own workshops were completed.

As far as is known and apart from mail, the company transported the world's first air freight . On 7 November 1910 were over a distance of 105 kilometers for the Moorehouse-Marten warehouse certain goods from Dayton (Ohio) to Columbus (Ohio) flown.

The brothers attached great importance to the enforcement of their patents , in particular that of the twisting of the wing with which a clean turn was possible for the first time. From the Wright brothers' point of view, this patent was so broad that it also covered the aileron technology . Since the legal disputes with other manufacturers took up a great deal of time and resources, the Wright Company neglected the further development of its aircraft and was defeated by other competitors such as B. the Curtiss Airplane and Motor Company technologically and economically overtaken. After Wilbur Wright died in 1912, Orville Wright sold the company in 1915. In 1916 it merged with the Glenn L. Martin Company to form Wright-Martin , which in turn merged into the Wright Aeronautical Corporation after a restructuring in 1919 . This then stopped the production of aircraft in the early 1920s, as it was not able to make up for the playful technological lead.

List of Wright Company aircraft

The company owned the following aircraft:

Web links

Commons : Wright Company  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mary Ann Johnson: Field Guide to Flight: On the Aviation Trail in Dayton Ohio. Landfall Press, Dayton, Ohio, 1996, ISBN 0-913428-58-2
  2. ^ Biographiq: The Wright Brothers . Filiquarian Publishing, LLC., 2008, ISBN 978-1-59986-213-2 , pp. 44 (English, 80 p., Limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ^ "The Wright Fleet," Air & Space / Smithsonian , March 2003