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...into a pilot's career. In 1930 he became a member of the U.S. Navy's famous Fighting Squadron 1, the High Hat Squadron (skipper of the High Hats: Lieut. Commander Arthur W. Radford). Nine of the High Hats, including Thach and Radford, barnstormed the nation in Curtiss F8C4 Hell-divers, tied wingtip to wingtip with Manila rope. Bound thus, Thach and some of his comrades astonished crowds with loops, snap rolls and high wing overs-and never snapped a rope or a wing. When Hollywood filmed Hell Divers in 1931, the High Hats flew all the stunt...
...Sonnabend got ready, Curtiss-Wright, which had hoped to work the same kind of rescue operation for Studebaker, prepared to move out. Two years ago Curtiss-Wright got a management contract to run Studebaker, plus an option to buy 5,000,000 shares of stock at $5 a share (which runs out this November), plus the chance of merging Studebaker into Curtiss-Wright if it could cut Studebaker's huge losses. But Curtiss-Wright had no success. Fortnight ago Studebaker reported that its losses in the first six months of this year soared to $13,314,165, almost double...
...together, formed Travel Air Co. in 1925 with Cessna as president, Beech as sales manager. But after building two types of planes, one of which was the first commercial aircraft to fly the Pacific to Hawaii, Cessna went off to form his own company. Beech merged Travel Air with Curtiss-Wright and later, in 1932, formed his own company...
...Titan ICBM) complained that the Pentagon has "so many people who have the power of negative endorsement" but nobody to give "an absolutely clear-cut decision that you know will stand." Titan is still on a "one-shift basis" and has not received a dollar of speedup money. Curtiss-Wright's President Roy Hurley aimed at the Pentagon budgeteers who withhold money for a program that has been approved by the Joint Chiefs and authorized by Congress: "You should shoot them, or drown them or put 'em in jail." Summed up Donald W. Douglas Sr., president of Douglas...
Liquid v. Solid. Watching the figures soar, dozens of big companies are hurrying into the field to share the bonanza. General Electric, after a start in small rockets, is now producing the big (100,000-lb. thrust) first-stage rocket for the Vanguard earth satellite. Curtiss-Wright is producing small antitank rockets for the Army, is working on a throttle-equipped" rocket engine for planes and missiles. Bell Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Phillips Petroleum, General Motors and many others are developing new engines and materials to fuel them...