The Wright Model E was a single-seat exhibition aeroplane of 1913 and the first Wright aircraft to use a single propeller, a seven-foot chain-driven propeller for which the tail booms were set further out along the wings. It had 24 inch tyres and was flown with four and six cylinder Wright engines, and its simple design let a small crew take it apart for shipping in about twelve minutes. The Model E was also the test machine for the first Wright automatic stabiliser, which used a wind-driven generator and pendulums to move the wing-warping controls. On 31 December 1913 Orville Wright flew a Model E fitted with the stabiliser for seven circuits of Huffman Prairie with his hands above his head, a demonstration that won the Wright brothers the 1913 Collier Trophy of the Aero Club of America. Lawrence Sperry gyroscopic autopilot soon overtook the pendulum design, and the one Model E built was bought by Albert Elton for exhibition flights.
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In the years up through 1915 when Orville sold the Wright Company, the company produced several aircraft models.
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the Wright Company set up a factory in Dayton, Ohio
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U.S. Centennial of Flight CommissionModel E paragraph
The Model E, built in 1913, was another exhibition plane.
Of Make: Wright Company, Production paragraph
In the years up through 1915 when Orville sold the Wright Company, the company produced several aircraft models.
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It was flown with four and six cylinder Wright engines.
In Group: Pioneer-Era Aeroplanes, Lead
was the first in the series of Wright Flyers that used a single propeller
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was the first in the series of Wright Flyers that used a single propeller
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