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The photograph shows employees of the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company standing on the wings of the Dayton-Wright RB-1 to show the strength of the aircraft. The RB-1 was one of the first airplanes made with a solid wing instead of the usual fabric covered wooden skeleton wings. The men standing on the wings are listed from right to left: Howard M. Rinehart, James M. Jacobs, J. P. Henry, Harvey D. Geyer, Bernard L. Whelan, Wallace S. Whittaker, Thomas Midgley Jr., J. H. Hunt, Milton K. Bauman (chief designer), Harold E. Talbott, G. M. Williams, and Charles F. Kettering. The RB-1 was also known as the Dayton-Wright Racer. |
