He graduated from Lombard College and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[1] In 1936, he published an important paper entitled "Factors affecting the costs of airplanes"[2] which describes what is known as Wright's law or experience curve effects.

The paper describes that "we learn by doing" and that the cost of each unit produced decreases as a function of the cumulative number of units produced.

[4] When President Truman announced Wright’s resignation as Administrator of Civil Aeronautics on January 16, 1948, the New York Times reported that Wright felt he could not continue in office at a salary of $10,000 per year (equivalent to $130,000 in 2023).

[5] He served as Cornell University's vice president in charge of research from 1948 to 1960 and served as acting president of Cornell University in 1951.