Wright Brothers

[skywords]

I have never seen this footage it's good.

http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/PY/322/see-the-film-wilbur_wright_and_his_flying_machine'

 

[Alpine 1789]

My great-grandfather (Morris J. Stone) was a carpenter who became enamored of the early airplane industry and switched to making wooden propellers. (As a side note, he also patented the hollow steel propeller.) According to my great-Uncles, the Wright brothers used to tour the country with early barnstorming air shows and were frequent guests in their home.

 

[Chuck Ingram]

Amazing footage.I believe I saw part of this in a documentary.
Here in Canada its the 100th annivesary of the Silver Dart which was Canada's first plane.They have built a replica and flown it according to the national news

 

[skywords]

My great-grandfather (Morris J. Stone) was a carpenter who became enamored of the early airplane industry and switched to making wooden propellers. (As a side note, he also patented the hollow steel propeller.) According to my great-Uncles, the Wright brothers used to tour the country with early barnstorming air shows and were frequent guests in their home.

"Wow" Jim your great grandfather must have done well with that patent. Most of the Lockheed Constellations used Curtis Electric props with hollow steel blades. In fact the Eisenhower Connie I am working on has these props.

 

[Alpine 1789]

"Wow" Jim your great grandfather must have done well with that patent.

I never knew him and he and my grandfather hardly spoke, but I don't think he was much of a business man. He went broke after both World Wars, thanks to a "grateful" government that canceled their orders leaving him stuck with stock and production capacity. His companies went under multiple names (most of which were variations on the original name: Stone Supreme Propellers) and moved multiple time, with production in St. Louis, Wichita, Grand Rapids, and our beloved Dayton Ohio, among others. Although I grew up having been told that my great-grandfather "invented" the metal airplane propeller, I only recently learned of the patent, when I came across a reference to him having sold it.