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DAYTON-WRIGHT AIRPLANE COMPANY |
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| USA |
Formed during First World War at Dayton, Ohio, for quantity
aircraft production, with Orville Wright as consulting
engineer. Built Liberty-engined DH-4 (the "Liberty plane")
and Standard J-1. In 1919 built a limousine version of DH-
4, single-seat Messenger, and also a three-seater. In 1920
Milton C. Baumann designed the revolutionary RB Racer, with solid all-wood wing, totally enclosed cockpit and
retractable landing gear linked to rod-operated leadingand
trailing-edge camber-changing flaps. Built the USB-
1, an Engineering Division redesign of the Bristol Fighter;
1921 twin-engined seaplane; side-by-side two-seat TR-
3 (last rotary-engined design for U.S. Army) and singlewheel
landing-gear TR-5. In 1922 built Douglas DF-2. In
1923 the parent company, General Motors, abandoned
aviation and dissolved Dayton-Wright; aeronautical work
of the company taken over by
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