Wright Flying School

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use American English Template:Infobox school/short descriptionTemplate:Template other The Wright Flying School, also known as the Wright School of Aviation, was operated by the Wright Company from 1910 to 1916 and trained 119 individuals to fly Wright airplanes.

History

Orville Wright began training students on March 19, 1910, in Montgomery, Alabama, at a site that later became Maxwell Air Force Base. With the onset of milder weather that May, the school relocated to Huffman Prairie Flying Field near Dayton, Ohio, where the Wrights developed practical aviation in 1904 and 1905 and where the Wright Company tested its airplanes. The school also had a facility in Augusta, Georgia, run by Frank Coffyn.

Some of the earliest graduates became members of the Wright Exhibition Team.

Sites

File:US National Park Service marker at Huffman Prairie Flying Field.jpg

National Park Service marker at the location of the Huffman Prairie Flying Field school.

• Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama
• Huffman Prairie Flying Field near Dayton, Ohio
• Augusta, Georgia

Notable students

• 1st Lt. Henry H. Arnold (1886–1950)
• 1st Lt. Thomas DeWitt Milling (1887–1960)
• Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879–1912) started on June 5, 1911. Within a week, his instructor was letting him take off, fly, and land the airplane, but when he asked to be allowed a solo flight, the instructor said "no". Rodgers then bought the training airplane, a Wright Flyer Model B, the first to be privately owned.
• Oscar Brindley (1885–1918)
• Walter Richard Brookins (1889–1953)
• Howard W. Gill (1882–1912)
• Oliver LeBoutillier (1894–1983)
• Philip Orin Parmelee (1887–1912)
• Leda Richberg-Hornsby (1886–1939)
• Marjorie Stinson (1895–1975)
• Edward Stinson (1893–1932)
• J. Clifford Turpin (1886–1966)
• Arthur L. "Al" Welsh (1881–1912) learned to fly and then in the summer of 1910 became an instructor at the Wright Flying School.
• George William Beatty (1887–1955) was taught by Al Welsh, taking his first lesson on June 24, 1911, and soloing on July 23, 1911. That same day, he flew as a passenger with Welsh to establish a new American two-man flight altitude record of ; and on August 5, 1911, Beatty broke his own record, flying to with Percy Reynolds as his passenger.

See also

• List of schools in the United States

External links

• Pioneer Flyers Who Trained at Wright Brothers FieldTemplate:Category handler.