Word: curtiss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every hour of night flying. To the individual flyer, $9,000 is no great income. But to the operating companies the salary item in the aggregate is enormous. The companies, as they became efficient business organizations, wanted to regularize their salaries, reduce them. None dared until last week. Then Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, which operates two score flying fields in all parts of the U. S., pioneered. The new Curtiss-Wright pay schedule offers as maximum yearly bases: $3,600 to chief pilots; $3,000 to long experienced pilots, plus $3 per hour for single-motored ships, $4 per hour...
Bitter, of course, was the protest of pilots at this grading and economizing. About 50 flying men gathered at once on Long Island. Practical, they admitted to the Curtiss-Wright company: "The economic condition of Eastern pilots in winter prohibits our direct refusal of the terms you offer." Less immediately practical, they telegraphed the National Pilots Association at Cleveland, which is a sort of flyers' union, for permission to join and for its Secretary Carl Francis Egge to go East to organize them...
...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, although only because it could not glide for three minutes at 38 m. p. h. or less, as the Tanager succeeded in doing...
...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. went the $100.000 prize, and to the Federal Court in Brooklyn went Frederick Handley Page with a lawsuit for $300,000 (the prize money tripled), claiming that the Tanager's slotted wing was an infringement of his patent...
Quickly the Curtiss people retaliated. They got the court to order the Handley Page entry held in the U. S. as evidence of contempt of court. Circumstances: In 1921, the Curtiss Company won an injunction restraining Handley Page "henceforth and forever" from importing any aviation products to the U. S., because the English company was using certain Curtiss devices. In England Curtiss had no redress. But they could keep Handley Page out of the U. S. The revival of their injunction was a Curtiss move to prove that Handley Page was prosecuting the $300,000 lawsuit without "clean hands." Probable...