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Time Remaining To Bid: 64 days 19 hours 1 mins. 51 secs.
Item Will Close On Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 8:30:00 PM CST

Lot Number: 5935963

Category: L53 - Estate & Personal Collections

RODERICK M. WRIGHT WWI PILOT PERSONAL ESTATE GROUPING

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Roderick M. Wright was born March 24, 1887 in the house built by his grandfather in 1863. He passed away in the same house on October 13, 1960.
Rod Wright learned to fly on July 16, 1913 at the Wright Brothers School at Dayton, Ohio with Oscar Brindly as his instructor. On July 28, 1913, Grover Cleveland Loening as the observer passed Rod Wright on his flying ability. Thus the Aero Club of America issued him the F.A.I. License No. 254. In 1915, Orville Wright asked Rod Wright to be one of his instructors at his school in Dayton, Ohio. While he was an instructor, he taught Edward Stinson, who was to be the founder and owner of the Stinson Airplane Company, and Roy Brown, a Canadian, who shot down the German Ace Richthofen in World War I. Mr. Wright was the test pilot for the Sturtevant Company at Boston, Mass. in 1917-1918. He was a test pilot for the War Department in 1917-1918. While there he flew monoplanes, biplanes and triplanes. While there he also flew two planes at the same time, using radio controls. He was the first man to accomplish that feat. In 1929- 1930 Rod was test pilot for the Stinson Company. During his flying experiences he has flown around 500 different planes. In 1929-1930 he held ratings in five different weight and power categories. He flew for the Ford Motor Company in 1931 and in 1932 flew in the Ford Trimotor. He worked for the Hudson Motor Co. and put a Hudson Terraplane car motor in a Curtiss Robin airplane to promote the Hudson Cars. During World War II he had the contract for drop testing parachutes made by the Reliance Manufacturing Company in Washington, Indiana. With 5,500 takeoffs and landings, some 11,000 parachutes were tested on his farm. When he was 67 years old, he flew the fastest plane in his career, a T-33 jet. For more information go to http://www.earlyaviators.com/ewrightr.htm

Grouping includes 1917 dated International Pilots license No.254 with photo of him sitting in the cockpit of his plane and signed, pair of his eye glasses + label button for 50th Anniversary of powered flight.

These items were obtained by Mr.Block from the personal estate of Roderick Wright.

For more information on this collection go to http://www.manions.com/block.htm  Condition: 7

Opening Bid Amount: $20

Current Bid Amount: $22 Total Bids: 2
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