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...take some of the load off the pilot, Curtiss-Wright Corporation last week announced a new wrinkle, to be used in its big CW20 transport under construction in its St. Louis factory. When the CW20 pilot is ready to land, he will throw a switch marked "land." A series of bulbs on the instrument board will light, and as he gets his landing gear down, lowers his flaps, cranks back his stabilizer, et al., the lights will go out, one by one. By other switches, he can check his operations for takeoff, or for any other operations. When the instrument...
Those who reported yesterday are: Captain Art Johns, Bob Fulton, Frank Foley, Slim Curtiss, Tom Henley, Lefty Edinbergh, Don Prouty, Dick Galbraithe, Joe Tully, Rick Hedbloom, Carrick Heiskell, Red Davis, Bob Regan, Cliff Helman, Tony Galluccio, Jack Schwede, Charlie Brackett, Ellie Bacon, and John Woodward...
Also published last week was the news that France has just doubled an order made last year for 100 Curtiss-Wright Pursuit ships of a type already in U. S. Army use, and plans to buy perhaps 400 more planes (reportedly through financing arranged with Franklin Roosevelt's assistance...
Four veteran hurlers will be on hand at the initial drill beginning at 2:30 o'clock. The returning men are Slim Curtiss, Tom Healey, Frank Foley, and Lefty Edinburgh...
...spark of in-line design firing, are now ready to go places. Already powered by Allison V-12's is the Army's twin-motored fighter, the Airacuda. More recently, the 1,000-horsepower Allison was built into a modification of the Army's snub-nosed Curtiss P-36. The ship has a speed of 280 miles an hour with a 1,100-horsepower radial. Powered with an Allison engine with 100 less horsepower, the lancelike P37 gained 75 m.p.h...