In early 1910, Dr. William Greene designed, built and sold the successor to his own 1909 biplane in Mineola, Long Island at the Aeronautic Society's facility. This aircraft was a fairly conventional biplane in the Farman style. By mid April 1910, Greene had left New York City and moved to Rochester, NY to start a company to produce aircraft of his own design.
Greene built the first of his 1910 biplanes for Roy W. Crosby of San Francisco, CA. This aircraft was originally equipped with a Curtiss motor but on later models, he used the Elbridge 2-stroke Featherweight motor instead.[1] The aircraft was designed to provide lateral control in a way that avoided the Wright brothers patent. It was equipped with a single forward elevator and a horizontal stabilizer with a movable rudder in the rear. The elevator was wired to work in conjunction with a flap that was attached to the trailing edge of the horizontal stabilizer. Ailerons were attached to the rear wing struts and were actuated by a Curtiss style shoulder control. Later models had wingspans of and [2]