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Represented in the company are Western Air, Boeing, American Airways (all Aviation Corp. transport lines). Pan-American and Curtiss-Wright have agreed to participate. National Air Transport, T. A. T., Safeway, and Eastern Air Transport are expected to join soon...
Married. August Heckscher, 81, Manhattan zinc tycoon, philanthropist; and a Mrs. Virginia Curtiss, 55, of Greenwich, Conn.; at Croton-on-Hudson...
...wings of the Curtiss-Bleecker are mounted at right angles to each other, to rotate about a vertical axis. Each wing is equipped with a propeller, shaft-driven by a central Wasp motor mounted horizontally in the axis. Also to each wing is rigged a controllable "flipper," comparable to an aileron. Beneath the entire assembly is a tiny two-place gondola with nearly conventional controls, landing gear, rudder...
Conservative Curtiss engineers would make no predictions, pending exhaustive flight tests but they believe it possible to fly the helicopter off a hangar floor at two feet of altitude, out through the door, then upward at 1,000 ft. per min., in any direction at 70 m. p. h.; also, to hover over one spot while the fuel lasts, descend with or without power no faster than the largest type parachute...
...Manhattan's Bleecker Street. Generation after generation of Bleeckers were strongly represented in New York's political, social and business life until recently. Designer Bleecker studied at the Bach School of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Michigan. He conceived his helicopter idea six years ago, took it in 1926 to Curtiss, who lent their resources and facilities to its development...