Wright-Martin
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Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation was a short-lived aircraft manufacturing business venture between the Wright Company (after Orville Wright sold the Wright Company and divested himself from it) and Glenn L. Martin.
History
Company officials merged their respective organizations, the Wright Company and the first Glenn L. Martin Company, in September 1916.
The company continued and escalated the Wright brothers patent war with other aircraft manufacturers, until its resolution—under duress from the government, in 1917, at the start of U.S. involvement in World War I—by the cross-licensing agreement developed and managed through the Manufacturers Aircraft Association.[1] Martin resigned in 1917, dissolving the Wright-Martin joint enterprise within a year.
The company manufactured a license-built version of the Hispano-Suiza 8 under the engineering leadership of Henry M. Crane. It was used by Vought VE-7, Vought VE-8, Boeing NB-2, and Loening M-8.
By 1918, the company had a factory in Long Island City, New York.[2] The company was renamed Wright Aeronautical in 1919, and shifted from manufacturing aircraft to manufacturing aircraft engines, developing the pivotal Wright Whirlwind engines which changed aviation dramatically.[1]
Meanwhile, in September 1917 Martin founded his second Glenn L. Martin Company, which remained a major aircraft manufacturer until the 1950s, when it also began developing rockets, missiles, and spacecraft. In 1961, the company merged with the American-Marietta Corporation to become industrial conglomerate (and continued aerospace manufacturer) Martin Marietta; it merged with Lockheed in 1995 to become today's Lockheed Martin, one of the United States' three remaining major large aircraft manufacturers (along with Boeing and Northrop Grumman).[3][4]
Aircraft
| Model name | First flight | Number built | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wright-Martin Model R | 14[5] | Single engine biplane reconnaissance airplane | |
| Wright-Martin Model V | 1[5] | Single engine biplane reconnaissance airplane |
References
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- ↑ a b Roland, Alex (foreword by Jimmy Doolittle), Chapter 2: "War Business: A Laboratory and Licensing; Committees and Engines, 1915-1918", in Model Research - Volume 1, SP-4103 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, retrieved December 4, 2017
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- ↑ Harwood, William B., book: [Raise Heaven and Earth: The Story of Martin Marietta], Simon & Schuster; (1993)
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External links
- World War I advertisement for the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation - FIGHT or Join the Industrial Aircraft Service, Popular Science monthly, December 1918, page 91.
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- Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
- Wright brothers
- Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States
- American companies established in 1916
- Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1916
- Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1919
- American companies disestablished in 1919