Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. ("Gipsy Moth," "Tiger Moth," "Hawk Moth"): $238,000 as against...
Twenty-seven designers and manufacturers signified their entry into the Guggenheim Fund world-wide safe aircraft contest after it opened two years ago. Rewards were to include $100,000 for the safest plane and $10.000 for each of five safe ones which could meet the competition's harsh but just tests. Only 15 planes appeared at Mitchel Field, L. I.. for trial. Six withdrew without trying. Others failed. Last week only two possible winners remained, the slotted-wing Curtiss (TIME, Jan. 6) and Frederick Handley Page's slotted-wing entry, an English make. The Handley Page failed...
...Curtiss Tanager, entrant in the Guggenheim Fund Safe Aircraft Competition, passed all its preliminary tests last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. It enters the finals with only one possible rival, a Handley-Page biplane similar in many respects to the Curtiss entry. Both planes have automatic wing slots. Frederick Handley Page has filed suit in Brooklyn for triple the amount of any prize the Tanager may win. He claims that the Curtiss plane is using wing slots on which he has a patent, without his warrant. The Curtiss company is expected to file counteraction claiming infringement of six basic...