The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-16
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r-MIIHUR WRIGHR
Flying Not Whit More Dangeroup'
Than Driving Auto Through
Crowded Street, Says Famous
Aviator, Here With Brother.
Declares Aeroplanes VIII Never n
Competitor of Trains and Have No
Future as Common CARRIER.

Fresh from the trial OF an injunc-
ton suit against Glenn Curtiss. in
volving the alleged infringement Of
their patents. the Wright brothers.
Wilbur and Orville. world famous
ayiators, OF Dayton, O., stopped OF In
Detroit Thursday morning on tho1g
way home from Buffalo, TO be present
at the organization of the Michigan
Aero club Thursday night. They came
on the invitation of Russell A. Aiger.
who is one of the directors of the
Wright Co.. recently formed In New
York for the manufacture OF airships
on a large scale. The brothers ara
registered at the Pontchartrain, where
the meeting will be held Thursday
night.
Wilbur Wright talked freely to The
Times OF the company's plans for the
establishment of an aeroplane indus
try. Detroit has been mentioned az
possible location for factory, but
Mr.. Wright declared that, for the pres
ent at least, the manufacturing oper.
atoms would be confined to Dayton.
On the occasion OF his last visit here.
several prospective sites were inspect
ed, but no negotiations are under way
as far as he knows.
we are devoting our attention now
70 putting In machinery In our Dayton
plant and training men for the
work. said Mr. Wright. I'VE expect
to be turning out planes for the mar
ket early in the year and our firSt
years output will probably not Do
less than % and II may reach so. They
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probably be used at the start largely
for sport and amusement.
DO you look for any competition ?"
was asked.
mo. not any serious competition.
! The only flying machines that are
doing anything at all, outside OF our
own, are infringements on our patents,
and every infringement will mean q
new lawsuit The first infringement
case was The one against Curtiss. lust
heard In Buffalo. The court reserved
its decision until some time in Janu-
airy, and In the meantime Curtiss Is
| free 10 20 on using his plane, but 1t
is clear infringement and if we ulti-
mately secure a restraining order we
will have an action against him for
! damages
coming common carriers is very re-
mote was the opinion expressed by
Mr.. Wright Railroads have nothing
TO fear in the way of competition
for few years at least.
"Aeroplanes. like birds, are not I'm.
| tended to carry n load much greater
than their own weight" said Wright.
THE investment required for a suf-
/ fcient number Of aeroplanes TO take
care OF general freight and passenger
traffic would be so great that 1t would
not I've profitable
"The planes We are going to manu-
facture will carry two or three peo-
pie handily. and in time think planes
will be turned out that will carry 10
or a dozen passengers. but they will
he devoted to special rather than to
general uses.
For example. in the west there are
mines TO which railroads cannot
penetrate and which are difficult OF
dvccss even on luot "a such case
an aeroplane would he found very
handy TO carry persons back and
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