Wright Flying School
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The Wright Flying School was operated by the Wright brothers from 1910 to 1916. Orville Wright began training students on March 19, 1910 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The site would later become Maxwell Air Force Base. With the onset of milder weather, the school relocated to Huffman Prairie near Dayton, Ohio where the Wrights had made experimental flights in 1904-05.
Some of the earliest graduates became members of the Wright Exhibition Team.
[edit] Students
- Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879-1912) started on June 5, 1911. Within a week, his instructor was letting him takeoff, fly, and land the airplane, but when he asked to be allowed a solo flight, the instructor said "no". Cal then bought the training airplane, a Wright Flyer Model B, the first to be privately owned. [1]
- Walter Richard Brookins (1889-1953)
- Philip Orin Parmelee (1887-1912)
- Marjorie Stinson [2]
- Eddie Stinson [3]
- Arthur Welsh (or Al Welsh) learned to fly and then in the summer of 1910 and became an instructor at the Wright's flying school.
