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plane Co. of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, as test pilot, working for his former friend, Grover Loening, who was then chief engineer there. On September 18th [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] Rod test flew a new Navy Sturtevant plane at the Atlantic Aviation Field, Boston, Massachusetts, and on October 18th flew a Sturtevant plane on an extended test flight which took him over Quincy, North Weymouth, Nantasket Beach, Boston, and Jamaica Plain, at times reaching 12,000 [[strikethrough]] ft. [[/strikethrough]] feet altitude. 

Remaining with Sturtevant until the onset of World War I in 1917, he offered his services to the government, first as a civilian instructor, then later was assigned as experimental test pilot at Langley Field, Virginia, where he remained for the duration of the war period. After that followed several years of instructing, barnstorming, and passenger [[strikethrough]] carrying,[[/strikethrough]] doing some testing with various small companies, including the Hurst Airplane and Motor Company of Evansville, Indiana, in 1921. Wright also managed the Graham Brothers flying field at Evansville for a time, and later became production test pilot for the Stinson Company at Wayne, Michigan, in 1929-1930, working for his good friend and former pupil, Eddie Stinson. There [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] Rod conducted initial flying tests on many of their new models, and at times delivered new planes to customers. [[strikethrough]] about the country on occasion. [[/strikethrough]] Later, in 1930-1932, he became a transport pilot for the Ford Motor Company on their early airlines using Ford tri-motored planes. While there he obtained Transport Pilot License No. 4528. Following this, Wright was pilot for the Hudson Motor Company for a time in 1932.

After twenty years of active flying, in 1933 Wright decided to return to the family farm. There he prepared his private airstrip, erected a hangar, procured a family airplane and continued to enjoy flying for pleasure. He taught his children and grandchildren to fly and kept his original Pilot License No. 254 valid for nearly fifty years. Occasionally he took on flying contract work and during World War II conducted parachute drop tests for The Reliance Manufacturing Company. In 1952 he was elected to the Indiana State Legislature and was re-elected for a second term in 1954. He assisted in marking and preserving the site of the Wright family home [[strikethrough]] at the Farm [[/strikethrough]] near Millville, Indiana, where Wilbur Wright was born.

On October 13, 1960, Roderick Wright passed away unexpectedly at Washington, Indiana, after several months of failing health. He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery near his farm. [[strikethrough]] home. [[/strikethrough]] Surviving were Mrs. Wright, three children and six grandchildren.

An [[strikethrough]] active [[/strikethrough]] Early Bird and true flying pioneer, it would have been difficult to equal his lifetime record in aviation, having flown scores of different types of land and water 

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