Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beaux-Arts in Paris, learning more about airplanes than art. During the War he was assigned by the Navy to research work in the Aircraft Engine Division, where he produced the three-cylinder, 60-horse-power, air-cooled Lawrance motor. This motor was the forerunner of the famed Wright J5 Whirlwind, designed in 1921, taken over by the Wright Aeronautical Corp. in 1924 along with Mr. Lawrance...
...Motors. The Wright J5 is a 200-horsepower motor with nine cylinders arranged like the spokes of a wheel around the propeller shaft. The cylinders are cooled by the rushing air, but do not themselves revolve (as in other types of air-cooled motors). The significant qualities of the Wright J5 are lightness of weight, simplicity, durability, practical foolproof-ness. It drives almost any airplane at a contented speed of 100 m.p.h., can do 130 m.p.h., depending on the plane and flying conditions. Mr. Lawrance has recently perfected a 525-horsepower, nine-cylinder, air-cooled motor-big brother...
...Company is the successor to the name, organization and traditions of Orville and Wilbur Wright, who made the first successful mechanical flight in 1903- at Kittyhawk, N. C. (See col. 2.) They could get no financial backing...
...Wilbur Wright went to France. There, after more successful flights, he sold the French patents for $100,000. In the U. S., money then became available. The brothers built their Wright Aeronautical Laboratories at Dayton, Ohio, where they had started business as bicycle dealers. Wilbur Wright was the laboratories' director until his death in 1912. Orville Wright has been director since. At Dayton, Orville Wright, now 56 and well-to-do, leads a quiet life. He keeps an office in the downtown section...
Apart from the laboratories was the Wright Aeronautical Co., with Orville Wright as chief engineer. In 1915 the company sold its patents to a group of New York financiers, who organized the present corporation. Its assets are now well over $2,000,000. With its factory at Paterson, N. J., it makes no airplanes, only motors for airplanes...