Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce grants prime importance in the community. President Clement Melville Keys, who has every one of his fingers in some aviation pie or other, and Vice President C. Roy Keys, his brother, have made Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor one of the largest self-contained units of the industry. Almost all present aircraft concerns make only planes, buy their motors elsewhere. Curtiss manufactures motors as well as ships. Curtiss builds Hawks, Falcons, Condors and Fledglings, all military planes which can be modified for transports and gadabouts. In motors it builds the powerful Challenger...
Weather was gusty at Curtiss Field, L. I., last week when Pilot Emil Burgin of the Acosta Airplane Corp. taxied a Fokker monoplane for a takeoff. As she moved forward a gust from behind caught her wings, lifted her, flopped her over on her back. She was little damaged...
...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. (with $4,581,920 in the call loan market); $1,528,782 as against...
Three Inches. A few days later, Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who is tabloided as "Lady Lindy," did a somersault in the mud at Curtiss Field, Long Island, while attempting to land her plane. This received space averaging three inches in the same newspaper which had made the Lindbergh-Morrow flop story...
...cylinders set in a line, or its 6, 8 or 12 cylinders arranged in a deep V. has much less wind resistance than the radial airplane motor. Cooling by water requires bulk and weight, yet many a large and powerful plane uses Packard and Curtiss water-cooled models...