 Bill Honen at the controls of the Model B as it is started for a taxi test |  Greg Cone and Ken Hyde during engine thrust tests |
When students at the Wright school learned to fly the Model B, the flight characteristics of the airplane were well known by the instructors. In preparing to fly the reproduction Model B today, however, the capacity of the airplane must be completely rediscovered, as most of this knowledge has been lost. One of the most important tests is to measure the thrust produced by the engine and propellers, which must be adequate for the machine to fly. In this text, the airplane is rigged to a scale, which is attached a static base (a truck). The airplane is run up to full power, and allowed to move forward against the scale, which measures the amount of weight the airplane can pull. With this test successfully completed, the team began to run the machine on the ground under its own power. | 
