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Eighty years later, when Ken Hyde received his first commission for a Wright Model B in 1992, he felt sure that such an important and well-documented machine like the Model B should be fairly easy to research. He had always wanted to build a Wright airplane. Hyde went to the Air and Space museum archives to begin his research. Six months later he still hadn't cut the first piece of wood for the machine.
The plans were woefully inadequate and incomplete. There was simply not
enough information to build a complete machine. So Hyde and his team began a
research project, finding every artifact, photograph, letter, article, or
film that might give them more information on exactly how the Model B was
built and flown. They were able to complete the Model B in 1994, and two
more Model B aircraft have been built: one for the College Park Aviation
Museum, and one for a film for PBS's NOVA series, and sponsored by Northrop
Grumman, NOVA, and the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
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