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...vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Charles Lanier Lawrance was always happiest when duty took him to the Wright factory where he might get his hands grimy, bury himself in blueprints, fuss with engines. Last week Mr. Lawrance provided himself with endless excuse for just such pleasure by announcing the organization of Lawrance Engineering & Research Corp. with himself as president. The company has no connection with Curtiss-Wright (in which, however, Researcher Lawrance continues an officer). It has been "undertaken in order to provide a laboratory in which scientific research may go forward in that leisurely atmosphere so necessary...
Fortnight ago appeared the six-month statement of Curtiss-Wright Corp. showing loss of $5,560,410.11. As in the case of Avco, about one-third of the sum was accounted for by extraordinary charges for development engineering, inventory adjustments, etc.: $2,031,307.55. Board Chairman Richard F. Hoyt was optimistic...
...resistance reduced to absolute minimum, has been loosely used to describe all manner of low-wing monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird's legs...
...French flyers had hardly landed before a nation-wide goodwill tour was projected for them by Charles Hayden, popular and potent head of the great Manhattan banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., director of 71 corporations (including Curtiss-Wright). Ambassador Morrow started the tour fund going with a substantial contribution while Mr. Hayden, smart bachelor with a strong social bent, mapped and arranged receptions, solicited more subscriptions...
Their battle practically won, the flyers found little thrill in the flight down the coast until the outlines of Long Island crept over the horizon. Then came the full joy of triumph. They landed at Curtiss-Wright Airport, first to make the flight that had cost the lives of ten before them, beginning with their countrymen Charles Nungesser and François Coli. Among the first to congratulate Coste & Bellonte in the wild crowd of 10,000 that swept over the field and stormed their hangar refuge was Charles Augustus Lindbergh...