Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 3 (WUPS)--"You can always Stella Harvard man, but you can't Curtiss feelings," said the Sage's friend, You Foo Too, "I've been Mullin it over and I say the soldiers will...
...product of the boom in U. S. air-crafting is a sensational airplane plant building boom. At Paterson (N. J.) Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp., flush with $7,000,000 of new Army business, got ready last week to build 300,000 sq. ft. of new floor space. In California -at Inglewood, San Diego, Hawthorne-North American Aviation, Consolidated Aircraft, Northrop, planned new buildings. Newest centre of U. S. aircraft's effort to reach the stature of a mass instead of unit producing industry is Detroit, where 27 companies have been officially approved as parts suppliers...
...Best indication of the condition of France's Air Force is that she has bought from the U. S. planes which this country had already improved upon. One of France's top fighters is the Curtiss P-36, of which she bought 200. Its 275-300 m. p. h. are not enough. Its air-cooled engine, offering considerable wind resistance ("like running for a trolley car with your overcoat open," says Al Williams), does not streamline as neatly as liquid-cooled power-plants. However, the French have repeatedly expressed themselves satisfied with the P-36, and have claimed...
...French accounts agreed with Polish, that most German pilots captured were youths of 19, 20, 21. The seasoned Nazi Condor squadron of Spanish Civil War fame was reported to have reached the Western Front from Poland. French pilots claimed to have proved that their U. S.-built Curtiss pursuit ships will outfly the Nazis' much-touted Messerschmidts...
...will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than 70% of capacity and finding no trouble getting workmen. In the propeller business Curtiss and Hamilton Standard (Pratt & Whitney corporate brother) were turning out all the props business needs without straining capacity and companies like The Sperry Gyroscope Co. had capacity for turning out plenty of instruments for every ship under order. The biggest problem of the industry may be post war: how to make...