Wright Aeronautical

Companies paid him to endorse their products or just to be associated with their companies.

He turned down cigarettes and movies and some other companies that he did not want to be associated with, but products that related to aviation, he readily accepted, including mobile oil, AC spark plug company, and Wright Aeronautical.

That was the company that made the engine for the Spirit of St. Louis.

He became a technical advisor and consultant for Pan Am Airways.

Let's look at an extreme historical example to illustrate what a glaring discrepancy looks like.

Have you ever looked at a company called Wright Aeronautical?

Wright Aeronautical? No.

Tell me about them.

So in 1922, this stock was selling on the New York Stock Exchange for $8 a share.

Charles Lindbergh has flown across the Atlantic.

The narrative has completely taken over.

The stock of Wright Aeronautical is now trading at $280 a share.

In Hartford, Connecticut, an engine man was working on a different part of the airplane.

Frederick Rentschler had left Wright Aeronautical and talked a machine toolmaker, the Pratt & Whitney Tool Company, into paying for a new kind of engine.

It was cooled by the air rushing past its cylinders, with no radiator and no water.

He founded Pratt & Whitney Aircraft to build it.