Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theodore Paul) Wright, crack aeronautical engineer and production man, got full authority over manpower, materials and machine tools for plane production. To the armed services, irked by civilian control over war building, no civilian could have been more acceptable. Ted Wright, onetime director of engineering and vice president of Curtiss-Wright, is an old hand at dealing with them, should be able to sweat more aircraft through WPB's red tape...
...Danger Signals? The big question in Emanuel's strong and massive new setup is whether it is fast and flexible enough to jump the hurdles which have tripped many a big-time industrial conglomeration. Outstanding example is Curtiss-Wright Corp., an outfit which was tossed together in 1929 with high hopes and publicity, promptly piled up big deficits because of the great depression, gangling training schools, overfinanced flying fields and loosely coordinated manufacturing divisions...
Testing and Insurance. Most of the big ones were Eddie Allen's babies-Douglas' DCs, Boeing's Stratoliner and Clipper, Consolidated's four-motored Coronado, Curtiss-Wright's Commando, Lockheed's new Constellation (which he shook down last month). Greatest single tribute to his skill was that a big insurance company refused to cover such test flights unless Eddie Allen was up front...
...never weighed more than 135. The few straggly strands of hair on top of his bald pate made him look like a tweedy cupid. His nose was fused into his face when he spun to earth more than 20 years ago in young Fred Harvey's white Curtiss Jenny, but many years later a plastic surgeon built him a creditable nose...
...hour is the purpose of a new $2,100,000 wind tunnel now under construction at Pasadena by the California Institute of Technology. The tunnel was financed by four members of the Aircraft War Production Council: Consolidated, Douglas, Lockheed, North American. An identical air tunnel is being built by Curtiss-Wright at Buffalo...