The Wright Model D was a single-seat speed scout that the Wrights built in 1912 for the United States Army. It was a light, fast aircraft, similar in design to the Model R, and was powered by the last six-cylinder engine the Wright brothers built, a 70 horsepower unit that drove two counter-rotating propellers by chain. It was made of ash and spruce coated with aluminium powder and used forward-mounted finlets, which the Wrights called blinkers, for stability. It could fly at about 66.9 miles per hour and climb 525 feet per minute. Orville Wright considered it the easiest to control of any aeroplane they had built, apart from its high landing speed, and that landing speed discouraged the Army from ordering more. The Army acquired two examples in August 1912, accepted them in 1913, rarely flew them and retired both in 1914. The 1913 engine is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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Source U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: Later Wright Activities
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Source U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: Later Wright ActivitiesProduction paragraphQuote, Production paragraph
In the years up through 1915 when Orville sold the Wright Company, the company produced several aircraft models.
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Source U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: Later Wright ActivitiesLater Wright Activities, factoryQuote, Later Wright Activities, factory
the Wright Company set up a factory in Dayton, Ohio
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1. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission: Later Wright Activities
U.S. Centennial of Flight CommissionModel D paragraph
The 1912 Model D was built for an army contract.
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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were retired in 1914
Specifications, powerplant
Wright 6-70 In Line 6 cylinder, liquid-cooled
In Group: Pioneer-Era Aeroplanes, Lead
was built to sell to the United States Army for an observation aircraft
Exemplifies: Aviation, Lead, aviation mode
was built to sell to the United States Army for an observation aircraft
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