Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectacularly he made his exit last week, having resigned in protest against sea-assignment (TIME, April 21). Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like an ever-lengthening pendulum. Ingeniously averting the dread "inverted spin" Williams landed, gave to the Navy...
...wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached Roosevelt Field from Glendale, Calif, in 14 hr. 45 min. 32 sec. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew from Los Angeles to Curtiss Airport five miles short of his goal. Roosevelt Field, in 15 hr. 37 min., almost an hour slower than the Lindberghs. He had alighted twice in between (the Lindberghs only once), and he was out of fuel at the end. His excuse: "I met miserable flying weather most...
...with the hammering roar of war. At the head of the formation in a Martin bomber, constantly in radio touch with all his following and ordering their every maneuver, rode Lieut. Commander Alfred E. Montgomery, in charge of the flight. Behind him came Martin torpedo planes, sturdy Vought Corsairs, Curtiss Seahawks, Boeing fighters...
Culminating a group of toars from various parts of the country, the planes all completed their fours Saturday and after the meeting over New York landed at Valley Stream. Long Island the landing field of the Curtiss Wright Corporation, the concern that was sponsoring the festivities in the evening there was a dinner in New York for the flyers at which time three representatives of the Curtiss organization made speeches concerning the future of aviation in college...
...Curtiss Robins seating three persons and powered with Wright Whirlwind or Curtiss Challenger engines were used by all the clubs the exception of the Harvard Flying Club's plane which is a Travel Aire. A rough estimate reveals that the total distance covered by all the ploanes was ever ten thousand miles with the Minnesota and Kansas flyers having flown about 2300 miles each...