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	Wright Engines -- An overview of the types of engines the Wright brothers built for their airplanes.
	1903 Engine -- The gasoline engine that powered the first flights on December 17, 1903.
	1903 Propellers -- The propellers that drove the Flyer 1 through the air.
	1904 Engine -- The Wright used a slightly more powerful version of their original (1903) engine to conduct their flight research at Huffman Prairie in 1904 and 1905.
	1904 Test Engine -- Never mounted in an airplane, it became a "bench engine," used to test improvements in the Wright powerplants.
	1905 Engine and Propellers -- The Wrights recycled the Flyer 2 engine in the Flyer 3, but they made their 1905 airplane a new set of propellers.
	1906-1912 Vertical-4 Engine -- The Wright's first commercial airplane engine, used on Model As and Bs.
	1911-1915 Vertical-6 Engine -- This was the the first Wright engine with a throttle. It doubled the available horsepower of its 4-cylinder predecessor.

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Last updated: August 28, 2006.