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The Collection: Aircraft: Wright transitional aircraft

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Orville Wright taking off in a Wright transitional aircraft.Walter Brookins and Frank Coffyn in discussion, Atlantic City, New Jersey.Frank Coffyn, Arch Hoxsey, and Duval La Chapelle posing with a Wright transitional aircraft.
Walter Brookins on Frank Coffyn's shoulders, near Griffith Brewer and Ralph Johnstone.Group of men, including Frank Coffyn (right), behind a Wright aircraft in the boardwalk airplane shed at Atlantic City.Powerplant of unidentified Wright aircraft.  From left: radiator, engine, fuel tank.
Walter Brookins flying a Wright transitional aircraft.Frank Coffyn flying over Hartford, Connecticut.
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This aircraft was an interim design between the Wright model A and the Wright Model B. It featured both a canard in front and an elevator in back. Some had skid-only landing gear, others had wheels.


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