Wright Exhibition Team
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The Wright Exhibition Team was a group of early aviators trained by the Wright brothers at Wright Flying School in Montgomery, Alabama in March 1910.
History
The group was formed in 1910 at the suggestion of balloonist Augustus Roy Knabenshue. The Wright Company built about 100 Wright Model B at the time, and only few of other models.
The team made its first public appearance on June 13, 1910 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The team performed aerial shows and set records for altitude (4939 feet) and endurance.
Pilots were paid $20 per week and $50 a day when flying. By August there were five separate teams flying at one time with $186,000 in receipts. Ralph Johnstone was the first to be killed.
After attempting another altitude record over Denver's Overland Park in November, Johnstone put his plane into Walter Richard Brookins' 'spiral dip' dive, and he never recovered. The plane plummeted to the ground, and Johnstone was crushed.
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