William Harper Jr.

William Harper Jr. was an American pioneer aviator and aviation engineer with the Wright brothers.

Biography

In 1912 he built his own airplane to fly out of Roosevelt Field, New York.
The airplane was a monoplane, resembling the contemporary Blériot, with a span of. It was powered by a two-cylinder two-stroke of, driving a -diameter propeller. It was outfitted with a speedometer and a crude turn-and-bank indicator.
It was reportedly able to glide as much as.
It was scheduled to fly in June, from a field east of Mineola, on the Hempstead Plains.
On February 3, 1914, Harper married Florence Tobin of Denver, Colorado in Newport, Rhode Island.