Wright Company

Production began at the beginning, from February to November 1910 in a rented portion of the plants of the automobile manufacturer Speedwell Motor Car Company, were completed by own factory halls.

The company transported, to the extent known and apart from Post, the world's first air freight. On 7 November 1910, a distance of 105 kilometers for the Moorehouse - Marten store certain goods from Dayton (Ohio ) to Columbus (Ohio ) were flown.

The brothers put a lot of emphasis on the enforcement of its patents, in particular the distortion of the wing with the a clean curve flight was possible for the first time. This patent was so broad from the perspective of the Wright brothers, that it also covered the technique of the aileron with. Since the litigation with other manufacturers took a lot of time and resources to complete, neglected the Wright Company the further development of its aircraft and was from other competitors such as the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company overtaken technologically and economically. After Wilbur Wright died in 1912, Orville Wright sold the company in 1915. 1916 merged it with the Glenn L. Martin Company at Wright - Martin, who rose again after a restructuring in 1919 in the Wright Aeronautical Corporation. This then set the early 1920s a production aircraft, because she was not able to catch the playful technological edge again.

List of the Wright Company aircraft

The Company had the following aircraft:

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