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...nation's business will henceforth have offices in the air. Just completed are two Curtiss Falcons; standard army planes for observation and attack. In the observer's cockpit are fixed folding desks. In them will be prepared or studied reports, speeches, while Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, and the Navy's Assistant Secretary for Aviation, Edward P. Warner, are winging their ways to keep appointments...
...Long Island, a plane flew straight up; dropped straight down undamaged. But it was only a tiny model plane and its flying field was a wind tunnel. So sound seemed its performance, however, that officials of the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., conservatives, reported that a life-size model will be built. The plane will have three, perhaps four, horizontal revolving wings. Its estimated rising speed will be 1,900 ft. per minute; forward speed, achieved by tilting 50 to 70 m.p.h. Dropping with motors dead, the revolving wings drag heavily; elminate landing crashes. Also eliminated are long landing fields. Mail...
...largest U. S. holder of rail-road stocks, Arthur Curtiss James of Manhattan, said: "I know that everyone. . . will be sorry to hear the news...
...Boston and St. Louis will for the next ten weeks be visited by the first "flying cigar store," unless it, the much-traveled Sikorsky biplane S-29,* specially tricked out and loaded by the United Cigar Stores Co., has further misfortune. Last week, trying to start its tour from Curtiss Field, L. I., it bowled into a smaller ship obscured by dust on the field, delaying its departure four days. On board were eight persons including skipper and wife, salesmen, mechanics...
Lieut. Maitland, 34, the pilot, is a towering, blond Milwaukee product. He learned to fly at Army training camps during the War. In 1923, he broke the existing world's record for speed by piloting a Curtiss plane at 244.97 miles per hour. He has a daughter, aged...