Wright Model G Seaplane

Wright Model G Seaplane. . , In autumn 1913, the Wright Company announced the Wright Model G Aeroboat. Partially the brainchild of Grover Loening, a promising young engineer hired by Orville Wright that summer, the Model G of 1913-1914 was designed to compete with the lucrative Curtiss Model F. , It featured a boat-like fuselage as well as wingtip floats for stability in the water and was tested on this stretch of the Great Miami River by Loening, Wright, and Oscar Brindley. The Wright aircraft differed from Curtiss' design by its drastically different nose and tail shapes, its slightly larger size and lighter weight, and its use of a sixty-horsepower six-cylinder engine. , The Wright Company declared their Aeroboat a perfect adaptation for sportsmen traveling over water, and Orville allegedly found it suitable for air mail routes in remote environments. , The U.S. Navy purchased the first Wright G production model, but never added the aircraft to its fleet. Overall, the Model G sold poorly, and the Wright Company continued its decline following Wilbur Wright's death in 1912. Orville continued to run the Wright Company until 1915, but was not interested in running a company without his brother and sold the Wright Company in 1915 for $500,000.