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Junior. Most recent and notable entrant into the light-plane field is Curtiss-Wright Corp.** Last week it announced its new Junior, a two-place high-wing monoplane for $1,490. Some features: Szekely 3-cylinder motor of 40 h. p.; top speed 80 m. p. h., cruising 70, landing 28 Fuel consumption: about one gallon to 25 mi.; cruising radius 200 mi. The plane is tiny, looks like a winged canoe built close to the ground, but is sturdily braced against the novice's "pancake" landings. It is of the "pusher" type (a rarity in modern landplanes) with...
Next morning from Candler Field, "the Coca-Cola airport," the party-all were deadheads-took off without ceremony in two great 18-passenger Curtiss Condors, deep brown with grey wings, and two new Curtiss Kingbirds (orange with brown wings), and a Ford and a Fokker...
Ever since the DO-X, when enroute to Bordeaux, fell 25 mi. short of her destination and was towed the remaining distance, there have been rumors that the twelve Curtiss Conqueror engines had not served well enough to warrant a transatlantic flight. These rumors the Brothers Dornier, Claude and Maurice, vigorously denied. But finally they did concede that bad weather on the Azores-Bermuda route had upset their plan to fly to New York. Instead, they planned to send the DO-X across the South Atlantic to Brazil. At that juncture Lieut. Clarence H. ("Dutch") Schildhauer, U. S. copilot, resigned...
...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor and Wright Aeronautical, August...
...directors of Otis Elevator Co., elected last week, were Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co. and Curtiss A. Sanford, Otis treasurer. The position of chairman, previously filled by the late William Delavan Baldwin, has been dispensed with...