Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from above. If the plane was slightly curved and tapered from front to back the suction force was about three times the pushing force. They learned, too, how to warp the plane wings, how to steer it, how to control it in all ways. They built their own motor. And then they were ready to make their first flight...
...Motor Manufacture. The Wrights in 1903 could get no one to make them a suitable flying motor; they invented one themselves. It was vertical and water-cooled. But the Wright Aeronautical Corp., which bought their airplane patents now makes radial air-cooled (whirlwind and cyclone) motors, but no planes. Nearly 3,000 Wright whirlwinds will have been made & sold this year. Pratt & Whitney (Wasp & Hornet radial motors) is the next largest motor maker, with 1,200 output this year. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. makes V-type motors for its own planes; Fairchild Aviation Corp. is almost ready to market...
Transportation. There are about 30 operators of scheduled flying routes in the U. S.,* and about 600 more who run planes for hire on special trips. They can make money only on long, fast trips, for the slower railroads and motor buses are much cheaper. So the market for transport planes is limited...
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Garden City, N. Y. / Hawk, Falcon, Robin / Commercial, sport, military / . . . . . . . .$4,000 up / Pioneers;War service; research, manufacture (motors of planes) sales, service...
Fokker Aircraft Corp. New York, N. Y. / Tri-Motor, Universal / Passenger & cargo / . . . . . .$14,200-$60,000 / Fokker Tri-Motor F-7 was used by Byrd to fly from Spitzbergen to the North Pole and back...