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Some comment was aroused last week by the report from Germany that Designer Dornier contemplated replacing the plane's twelve Curtiss Conqueror engines with six oil-burning engines now under development. To that the Curtiss-Wright Corp. promptly replied by displaying cablegrams of congratulation from Designer Dornier and Capt. Christiansen on the performance of the motors...
Fire. A big Curtiss Condor of Eastern Air Transport, New York-bound from Richmond with 18 passengers, was 20 min. past Baltimore when smoke began rolling through the cabin. A poorly insulated heater pipe in a rear compartment had set the fuselage afire. Hostess Elizabeth Westwood (all E. A. T. planes carry young and personable women as hostesses) circulated among the passengers, assuring them there was no grave danger, while Co-Pilot G. J. McDonald fought the flames with fire extinguishers. Pilot E. C. Kondat raced to an emergency landing at Fort Hoyle. Md., sideslipping the plane to blow...
...despite an epidemic of price cutting, were frankly disappointed by lack of business. As he did at last year's show in St. Louis, Errett Lobban Cord began the price-slashing by reducing his Stinson Junior by $1,000 to $4,995, to get under the five-passenger Bird. Curtiss-Wright followed by cutting its four-place sedan from $6,370 to $4,595. Both builders admitted they could not make money at the price...
...been expected, it was largely a "light-plane show," about half the planes on display falling into the price range between $1,000 and $3,000. Notable among the "flivver planes" were Stout's Sky Car (TIME, April 13), the Buhl Bull Pup, Curtiss-Wright Junior, the Aeronca and the Heath...
...Curtiss. Two months ago an Act-of-God decision in favor of Curtiss Flying Service was set aside by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn, and a retrial ordered in a $25,000 damage suit. Last fortnight a jury again opined that the Curtiss pilot was not blamable for a fatal crash resulting from an air bump...