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G.Swanborough, P.Bowers United States Military Aircraft Since 1909 (Putnam)

WRIGHT MODELS B AND C

   The Model B was a greatly improved A, the major change being relocation of the elevators from a position ahead of the wings to a rearward position in contemporary “Tractor” configuration. The wing-warping, two-lever controls, and chain-driven propellers behind the wings were retained but wheel landing gear replaced the skids of the original A, which was launched down a rail by a falling weight. The two Bs (serials 3 and 4) were used as trainers, with instructor and student sharing some of the controls, which were not completely duplicated. The seven Model Cs (serials 7, 8, 10-14), practically identical to the B, eliminated this by installing full dual controls. On some, the lever controls were replaced with two wheels mounted on a single yoke.
   Span, 38 ft.; length, 30 ft.; empty weight, 930 lb.; gross weight, 1,380 lb.; high speed, 54 m.p.h.

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  • G.Swanborough, P.Bowers United States Military Aircraft Since 1909 (Putnam)
  • M.Goodall, A.Tagg British Aircraft before the Great War (Schiffer)
  • L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
  • K.Molson, H.Taylor Canadian Aircraft since 1909 (Putnam)
  • Jane's All The World Aircraft 1913
  • Журнал Flight
  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    In 1910 the Wrights began to experiment with doing away with the forward biplane elevator. This aircraft is being flown without it, though the booms which carried the surfaces are still evident. The skids have bungee-sprung twin wheels attached; the large simply positioned beneath the wings to facilitate ground-handling.

  • P.Jarrett - Pioneer Aircraft: Early Aviation Before 1914 /Putnam/

    Daredevil Wright exhibition pilot Arch Hoxsey prepares to take off from Dominguez Field, Los Angeles, on 31 December 1910 in his Wright Model B, for what was destined to be his last flight.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    Hoxsey, in his new type Wright biplane, travelling well in his start for the high altitude contest at Belmont Park (N.Y.).

  • Журнал - Flight за 1911 г.

    TWO REMARKABLE SNAPSHOTS OF WRIGHT MACHINES IN FLIGHT. - That on the left shows Walter Brookins in the course of making a complete circle in 6 2/5 secs., while the photograph on the right was taken of Hoxsey's machine during the fearful plunge, following a "trick" descent, which caused the aviator's death.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    A series of German aeroplanes at Johannisthal from photographs kindly sent to us by the Hon. Lady Shelley. - German Wright Biplane.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1913 г.

    A "plan view" from beneath of Beatty, on his Wright, during one of his banked turns at Hendon.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1913 г.

    Mr. Beatty making one of his banked turns on his Wright over the sheds at Hendon.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1913 г.

    TEA AT HENDON AERODROME WHILST WATCHING THE FLYING. - In the air is Beatty descending on his Wright machine.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1916 г.

    A REMINISCENCE OF HENDON. - Mr. Kenworthy, on a Beatty-Wright, returning to the Aerodrome after executing many thrilling evolutions just out of the range of the camera.
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  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    FLYING AT BROOKLANDS. - Raynham, with a passenger, making a fine turn on the Burgess-Wright biplane on Sunday at Brooklands.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1914 г.

    E. Baumann at Hendon Aerodrome passing over Pylon I on the Wright biplane.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    Miss Katherine Stinson on an exhibition flight on her Wright biplane in America.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    Stormy air-work by Mr. Roche-Kelly on a Beatty-Wright at Hendon.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    LATE EVENING AT HENDON. A SUNSET AND CLOUD STUDY. - Mr. C B. Prodger on a Beatty Wright machine.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1914 г.

    Mr. Beatty flying the Wright school biplane at Hendon recently.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    "FLYING AT HENDON," AS SEEN FROM ABOVE. - Mr. Roche-Kelly on the Beatty-Wright, taken from Mr. Prodger's Beatty-Wright.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    A snap of Rayham flying on the Burgess-Wright in connection with one of the contests - the Shell - at Hendon Aerodrome during the past season.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    Raynham, on the Burgess-Wright and Lewis Turner putting up a fine finish in the order named for the "Shell" Speed Contest at Hendon on Aerial Derby Day.

    Другие самолёты на фотографии: Grahame-White Baby - Великобритания - 1911

  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    An incident between two biplanes in the recent race for the "Shell" Spirit Prize at Hendon. - Lewis Turner on Farman, and Raynham on the Burgess-Wright, travelling down the aerodrome.

    Другие самолёты на фотографии: Farman Farman-IV - Франция - 1910

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    CIRCLING AT HENDON. - Mr. Marcos D. Manton in the G.-W. Scout. In the distance one of the Beatty-Wright.

    Другие самолёты на фотографии: Grahame-White Type XIII 'Circuit of Britain' - Великобритания - 1914

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    AT THE BEATTY SCHOOL, HENDON. - Mr. Roche-Kelly on a Beatty-Wright "jumping" over a similar machine on the ground.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    A selection of photographs of the Brooklands flight colony secured by Mr. P. Raynham, piloting a Burgess-Wright biplane. - 1. The sheds as seen from above the sewage farm. 2. As they appear from above the railway straight. 3. The sheds against the Byfleet banking. 4. The Club House, paddock, and tennis courts.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1913 г.

    What terra firma looks like from an aeroplane with a 45 deg. bank on. From a photograph by C. M. Vought, when flying in a Lillie-Wright at Cicero, Ill., U.S.A.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1911 г.

    SAN FRANCISCO AVIATION MEETING. - On the left general view of the flying grounds in front of the Grand Stand, with T. Radley's Bleriot and Brookins' Wright biplane ready for flying. On the right Radley at the wheel of his car, with Hubert Latham by his side and U.S. Army officers in the tonneau.

    Другие самолёты на фотографии: Bleriot Bleriot-XI - Франция - 1909

  • Журнал - Flight за 1911 г.

    The late Capt. Englehard, who was recently killed at Johannisthal, looking over his German-Wright machine before making a flight at the German aerodrome.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    PARIS FLIGHT SALON. - General view of the centre of the Grand Palais. On the right is seen the Wright biplane, on the left the Maurice Farman biplane, just beyond being the Henry Farman machine, whilst in the foreground, in the centre, is the two-seater Antoinette monoplane.

    Другие самолёты на фотографии: Antoinette Antoinette VII - Франция - 1909Farman Farman-IV - Франция - 1910Maurice Farman MF.2 - Франция - 1910

  • Журнал - Flight за 1913 г.

    Mr. Beatty's Wright biplane, with Gyro motor, at Hendon.

  • M.Goodall, A.Tagg - British Aircraft before the Great War /Schiffer/

    Beatty-Wright. One of the Wright-type biplanes built by Beatty at Hendon (with Wright engine).

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    Two views of the new Beatty Wright biplane, which is now becoming very popular as a brevet machine.

  • M.Goodall, A.Tagg - British Aircraft before the Great War /Schiffer/

    G. W. Beatty with the Gyro-Wright with 50hp Gyro engine, which he flew into second place at Hendon in the Speed Handicap on 24 July, 1913.

  • A.Durkota, T.Darcey, V.Kulikov - The Imperial Russian Air Service /Flying Machines/

    Princess Eugenie M, Shakhovskaya seated to left in a Wright Flyer. She obtained her pilot's certificate, German certificate number 247, on August 16, 1911, while flying this machine at Johannisthal, Germany.

  • A.Durkota, T.Darcey, V.Kulikov - The Imperial Russian Air Service /Flying Machines/

    Princess Eugenie M, Shakhovskaya beside the Wright flyer, Johannisthal, Germany, August 1911.

  • L.Opdyke - French Aeroplanes Before the Great War /Schiffer/

    The Astra-Wright Type E. The nacelle holds 2, and the Renault is cowled with a large circular ring.

  • Jane's All The World Aircraft 1913 /Jane's/

    BURGESS-WRIGHT as a hydro (the U.S. Navy has two of these).

  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    Engineer Thelen, with Frau Direktor Worner as passenger, on his Wright biplane during the Berlin Aviation week this month.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    Ex-President Colonel Roosevelt in the passenger seat with Hoxsey on the Wright biplane on which Mr. Roosevelt had his flight at St. Louis on October 11th last.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    AMERICAN FLYING MEN AT BELMONT PARK MEETING. - Archie Hoxsey.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    AMERICAN FLYING MEN AT BELMONT PARK MEETING. - Walter Brookins.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1910 г.

    AMERICAN FLYING MEN AT BELMONT PARK MEETING. - Ralph Johnstone.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    Cal Rodgers, the first American cross-Continental aviator, who was killed at Long Beach on April 22nd. On the right is a photograph of the wrecked machine showing where it fell to the edge of the surf.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1912 г.

    Miss Katherine Stinson, a lady pilot who recently obtained her brevet in America at Cicero Field, where she passed for her certificate on a Wright biplane.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1913 г.

    Abramovitch, the famous Russian aviator, and Princess Schakowskaja, who, on a German-built Wright biplane, last week met with an accident at Johannisthal, Abramovitch being so badly injured that he afterwards succumbed. Princess Schakowskaja herself, also a well-known pilot and a pupil of Abramovitch, was at the time acting as pilot. She was not seriously hurt.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    Misses Marjorie C. and Katherine Stinson, two American pilots. The former is aged 18, the latter 20, and both fly Wright machines. Miss Katherine Stinson has been flying for a long time past, her sister joining her last year, and they are continually giving demonstrations in the United States.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1913 г.

    Captain Tyrer, who probably holds the record for passenger flights in various aeroplanes, starting for a flight at Hendon with Mr. Beatty in his Wright flyer. Note the position of the Gyro motor.

  • P.Lewis - British Racing and Record-breaking Aircraft /Putnam/

    Two racing pilots of 1913 at Hendon - Marcel Desoutter, left, and G. W. Beatty, right, seated in the 50 hp Gyro-Wright biplane.

  • H.Cowin - Aviation Pioneers /Osprey/

    Chance Milton Vought, the son of a prominent boatbuilder, was born in New York City on 26 February 1890. At the age of 20 and with a strong technical bias to his education, the impatient young Vought, who had already restyled himself Chance, from Chauncey, left college in 1910 to join an engineering firm in Chicago. It was during these early days in Chicago that Chance Vought was to be bitten by the 'aviation bug'. Vought learnt to fly on a Wright Model B of the Lillie Aviation Company, in which he is seen here, gaining FAI Licence No 156 on 14 August 1912. Despite having risen to head the Experimental Development Department of the company he had joined in 1910, Vought's love of things aeronautical lead him to join the Lillie Aviation School in 1913 as their maintenance engineer, ground school lecturer and instructor pilot. While here, Vought masterminded the conversion of a Wright Model B into the 1913 two seat Lillie-Vought Tractor. Once again, this work clearly did not stretch him sufficiently, with Vought moving on, in 1914, to become Editor of the weekly Aero and Hydro magazine. In parallel with his editorial duties, Vought got his first real design opportunity, when he drew up and supervised assembly of the two seat PLV biplane, first flown in August 1914. By now tiring of journalism, Vought joined the Curtiss Aeroplane Company in the summer of 1915, having spent some of his early 1915 months drawing up the plans and supervising the building of the Mayo-Vought-Simplex two seat trainer, first flown in May 1915. In the autumn of 1915, the footloose Vought moved from Curtiss to join the Wright Company as Chief Engineer. Vought retained this job title after Orville Wright and Glenn Martin came together to form the relatively short-lived, but prestigious-sounding Wright-Martin Company in August 1916. Wright-Martin then acquired the Simplex Motor Car Company and the Mayo Radiator Works, producers of the earlier Mayo-Vought-Simplex machine. This provided Vought with the opportunity to develop his earlier 90hp Mayo design into the sole 150hp Wright-Martin Model V two seater, first flown in September 1916. An admirable enough aircraft in itself, the Model V was to flounder in a morass of Franco-American politics and corporate skulduggery, that involved the non-delivery of 700 licence-built Hispano engines to France and brought about the breakup of the Wright-Martin enterprise. However, happily for Chance Vought, before the Wright-Martin breakup occurred, the company had sent him to Europe for five months, where he had an opportunity to inspect the latest European design practices at first hand. Thus, when America entered the war in April 1917, the 27 year old Vought, intent on forming his own company, went looking for a partner with money and the contacts to complement his technical expertise. Thus, on 18 June 1917, was formed the Lewis and Vought Corporation, with Chance M. Vought as Chairman and President. Incidentally, the Lewis in the company's title, referred to Birdseye B. Lewis, an independently wealthy sportsman, pilot and playboy, who shortly after the corporation's foundation, left for France as part of General Pershing's staff, only to be killed in a flying accident. Back in Long Island, Vought was busy creating his two seat VE-7 advanced trainer, the aircraft that established the Chance Vought name in the annals of 20th Century aviation. In 1922, the company became the Chance Vought Corporation, going on to produce the US Navy Corsair biplanes of the 1920s and '30s, the F4U Corsair fighter of World War II and the Mig-killing F8U Crusader carrier jet of 1957. Tragically, Chance Vought died of scepticaemia, still only 40 years of age, on 25 July 1930.

  • P.Jarrett - Pioneer Aircraft: Early Aviation Before 1914 /Putnam/

    This Wright Model B, now in the Musee de l'Air, Paris, has a two-lever control system.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1914 г.

    The dual control and power plant of the Wright flyer at the Beatty School, Hendon Aerodrome.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1914 г.

    THE DUAL CONTROL ON MR. BEATTY'S WRIGHT BIPLANE. - As Mr. Beatty is accustomed to and prefers the original Wright control, the school machines are equipped with this type for the instructor, whilst the pupils' controls are similar to those most favoured by European designers, consisting of a hand wheel for the warp, mounted on a steel tube structure to which is connected the elevator, and a foot bar for the rudder. These are ingeniously interconnected with the Wright control so that both act simultaneously.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    A batch of pupils and instructors (60 h.p. Wright) at the Beatty School, Hendon. - From left to right: (back row) Messrs. Fox, Hoskier, Crossman, Eaton, Lieut. Ross, Prodger (instructor), Arbon, Theo and Delves; (front row) Messrs. Jones, Kenworthy (Instructor) and King.

  • Журнал - Flight за 1915 г.

    THE COUNTRY, AS SEEN FROM AN AEROPLANE. - View of Mill Hill, at an altitude of 1,000 ft. from a 50 h.p. Gnome-engined Wright biplane. From a sketch actually made during the flight by the artist, Mr. Roderic Hill. Below can be seen the town of Mill Hill and the Midland Railway curving away into the distance. Mr. Roche-Kelly, the very popular exponent of the graceful Wright machine, was Mr. Roderic Hill's pilot.