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Swiftly, spectacularly, the "fight for supremacy in the industry" (TIME, April 14 et seq.) was ended last week when United Aircraft & Transport Corp. wrung control of National Air Transport Inc. from the Curtiss-Keys group...
...cargo transport planes (mostly Douglas and Curtiss Falcon) valued...
...House last fortnight (TIME, April 28) and by the Senate last week, NAT'S mail contracts which would expire May 5 may be extended another six years without the Postmaster General's calling for other bids. However, with its plentiful passenger equipment (Transcontinental Air Transport) and strategically located airports (Curtiss-Wright Airports Corp.), the Curtiss-Key group may yet challenge Mr. Rentschler's bold claim that "the air between the coasts is not big enough to be divided...
Last week, in response to a Navy call for bombing craft, Curtiss presented its new Wasp-powered XF8C-4 biplane at Mitchell Field, L. I. Testpilot William Crosswell put the ship through gruelling 7,000-ft. vertical dives, throttle wide open, levelling off suddenly at 300 m. p. h. His observer was taken so ill that a substitute was necessary...
...plane somewhat resembles the Vought Corsair in appearance but has the swept-back wings of the Curtiss Falcon. Since all Curtiss planes are named for birds (Robin, Condor, Thrush, etc., etc.) the new, one has been tentatively dubbed Hell Diver...