Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruises at 90 m.p.h., a Puss a little faster. Reasons for Moth popularity: 1) British plane builders concentrate on commercial & military types; 2) with little competition in the sport class, Moths are light on fuel, amazingly reliable. In the U. S. the rights to Moth-making are held by Curtiss-Wright Corp., which, at present, makes no Moths...
...house in a hangar, the giant flying boat DO-X has been high & dry on the beach at Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y., since August. Riggers have been busy scraping and painting the hull, re-doping the great wing. Mechanics have reconditioned the twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors, stepped them up 50 h. p. apiece. Last week Captain Friedrich Christiansen announced that DO-X would take off for the return flight to Europe via Newfoundland and the Azores about...
...Curtiss-Writght 4,126,000 (loss) 9,012,900 (loss...
...compact little Curtiss fighter, "the smallest plane which could be built around a 420-hp. Whirlwind," one of five built for the Navy for installation within the airship Akron...
...president is almost always an oldtime railroad man?viz. Pelley, Baldwin, Williamson, Budd. Storey. Rail chairmen are usually bankers or lawyers. Robert S. Lovett of the U.P. was its counsel for five years. Financier Harold Stirling Vanderbilt heads the C. & N. W. as chairman, just as Financier Arthur Curtiss James heads Western Pacific...