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 .
15-658: Company officials merged their respective organizations, the Wright Company and the Glenn L. Martin Company , in 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
30-741: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wright Company The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright brothers, established by them on November 22, 1909, in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on their invention of the practical airplane. The company maintained its headquarters office in New York City and built its factory in Dayton , Ohio . The two buildings designed by Dayton architect William Earl Russ and built by Rouzer Construction for
45-701: The Burgess Company and the Manufacturers Aircraft Association . He was the Vice President and a director of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company and a director of Curtiss-Wright Corporation . Russell was born on July 17, 1878, in Mansfield, Ohio, to Reverend Frank Russell, Congregationalist minister and descendant of Reverend Noadiah Russell , and Aurelia Squire Henry Russell. He was a nephew of Russell Alexander Alger and Avra P. Russell. He
60-582: The Manufacturers Aircraft Association . A license-built version of the Hispano-Suiza 8 was manufactured by the company under the engineering leadership of Henry M. Crane . It was used by Vought VE-7, VE-8 , Boeing NB-2 , and Loening M-8 . By 1918, the company had a factory in Long Island City , New York. Martin soon resigned, dissolving the Wright-Martin joint enterprise within a year. The company
75-664: The Wright Company built approximately 120 airplanes across all of its different models between 1910 and 1915. Many of the papers of the Wright Company are now in the collection of the Museum of Flight in Seattle, while others are held by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress also holds the papers of Grover Loening , the second Wright Company factory manager, while
90-529: The Wright Company in Dayton in 1910 and 1911 were the first in the United States constructed specifically for an airplane factory and were included within the boundary of Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in 2009. The Wright Company concentrated its efforts on protecting the company's patent rights rather than on developing new aircraft or aircraft components, believing that innovations would hurt
105-555: The Wright brothers demonstrated their aeroplane in a flight over New York harbor. Russell witnessed the demonstration from the roof of his factory and sought to meet them. Russell joined the newly formed Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company as General Manager in 1910. Russell sold the first military aircraft to the US Army, and donated the prior experimental model which is now at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. In 1911, Russell joined in
120-522: 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 ). This aeronautical company–related article
135-475: The company's efforts to obtain royalties from competing manufacturers or patent infringers. Wilbur Wright died in 1912, and on October 15, 1915, Orville Wright sold the company, which in 1916 merged with the Glenn L. Martin Company to form the Wright-Martin Company. Orville Wright, who had purchased 97% of the outstanding company stock in 1914 as he prepared to leave the business world, estimated that
150-482: The formation of the Burgess Company with his friend and Milton Academy classmate William Starling Burgess , who had been manufacturing aircraft under license from Wright. Burgess was acquired by Curtiss in 1914 and Russell became the Vice President - General Manager, and a director of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company . Under his direction the company developed many of the most successful military planes of
165-547: The papers of Frank Henry Russell , the first plant manager, are at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center. [REDACTED] Media related to Wright Company at Wikimedia Commons Frank Henry Russell Frank Henry Russell (July 17, 1878 – August 4, 1947) was an American aviation pioneer and the first General Manager of the Wright Brothers Company at Dayton , Ohio . He went on to co-found
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#1732851259443180-649: The time, which included the NC-4 flying boat and racing planes flown by Jimmy Doolittle and Major Al Williams. Curtiss-Wright was formed in 1929 by the merger of the two formerly rival companies and Russell became a director of the combined enterprise, as well as president of Curtiss Asset Corporation and Curtiss-Caproni, Inc. Some sources credit Russell with pioneering the designs for US fighter aircraft of World War II. In 1931, Russell moved to his farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in active retirement until his death there in 1948. He
195-538: Was a director of the Budd Company and focused his efforts on applying aircraft streamlining concepts to trains. In 1917, Russell participated in the formation of the Manufacturers Aircraft Association and was elected its secretary and later its president, which he remained until his death. The industry association was created to mediate patent disputes between aircraft and component manufacturers that had been hampering American military preparedness during World War I. He
210-532: Was graduated from Yale in 1900, and married Marietta Ford on December 31, 1902. He joined the Laurentide Paper Company of Quebec as Manager of Sales, but came to be recognized for ability in manufacturing management. He became president of Automatic Hook & Eye Company, a predecessor company to Talon Zipper, in Hoboken, New Jersey and held patents for processes in the manufacture of the zipper. In 1908,
225-401: 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. He continued development of his Glenn L. Martin Company , which remained a major aircraft manufacturer until the 1950s, when it also began developing rockets, missiles, and spacecraft. In 1961,
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