The Howard Wright 1910 airplane was of a configuration then referred to as the "Farman type": A two-bay pusher biplane with two pairs of booms in front of the wings bearing a single elevator, and four wire-braced wooden booms behind the wings carrying a single rudder half above and half below a fixed horizontal surface bearing a second elevator.

water-cooled engine in order to qualify for the £4,000 Baron de Forest prize for the longest all-British flight to a destination on the Continent made before the end of 1910.

The first 1910 Biplane first flew at Larkhill on Salisbury plain in August 1910 piloted by E. M. Maitland; following a crash and a repair it was lent to Lieutenant L. E. Watkins who later entered it for the de Forest prize.

The aircraft crashed in Kent before it could compete for the prize and was later sold to the War Office for £625: it would be used by the Air Battalion of the Royal Engineers at Larkhill.

The third ENV-engined aircraft was bought by Thomas Sopwith, who after brief ground trials of his new machine on 21 November gained his Aero Club flying certificate (No 31) the same day.