The Wright Flying School, also known as the Wright School of Aviation, was operated by the
Wright Company from 1910 to 1916 and trained 119 individuals to fly Wright airplanes.
Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879–1912) started on June 5, 1911. Within a week, his instructor was letting him takeoff, fly, and land the airplane, but when he asked to be allowed a solo flight, the instructor said "no". Rodgers then bought the training airplane, a
Wright Flyer Model B, the first to be privately owned.[citation needed]
Arthur L. "Al" Welsh (1881–1912) learned to fly and then in the summer of 1910 became an instructor at the Wright Company's flying school.[6]
George William Beatty (1887–1955) was taught by Al Welsh, taking his first lesson on June 24, 1911 and soloing on July 23, 1911. That same day he flew as a passenger with Welsh to establish a new American two-man
flight altitude record of 1,860 feet (570 m); and on August 5, 1911 Beatty broke his own record, flying to 3,080 feet (940 m) with
Percy Reynolds as his passenger.
^"Parmalee is Killed". Los Angeles Times. June 2, 1912. Retrieved 2009-08-04. Aviation Star Has Fatal Fall. Graduate of Wright School Meets His Death at North Yakima, Wash. Biplane in High Wind Flutters and Dives from Four Hundred Feet. His Fiancee Is Among First to Reach Crushed Body of Fallen Birdman. Gives Life as Toll to Aerial Navigation.
^"Lieut. Hazelhurst and Al Welsh, Professional Aviator, Victims of Airship Test". New York Times. June 12, 1912. Retrieved 2009-09-04. Lieut. Leighton W. Hazelhurst, Jr., of the Seventeenth Infantry, one of the most promising of the younger aviators of the army, and Al Welsh, one of the most daring professional aviators in America, were instantly killed in a flight at the Army Aviation School at College Park, Md., at 6:30 o'clock this evening.