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...Vought Corsair with a Pratt & Whitney radial engine of 14 cylinders built in two banks of seven cylinders each, back to back, to deliver 625 hp. from 14 cylinders, with the head resistance of only seven cylinders...
Robert Esnault-Pelterie, oldtime aeronaut of France, best known for his interest in shooting a rocket to the moon, sued Chance Vought Corp. last year on the ground that every plane it had built was an infringement of his patents. His reason: each of the planes was controlled in flight by a single stick ("joystick") operating ailerons and elevator, which he claimed to have invented. A victory in the Chance Vought case would have meant collection of fabulous damages from U. S aviation, as every plane has joystick control. Last week a Federal judge in Brook lyn dismissed the Esnault...
...Chance Vought Corp. for 15 observation planes...
...patent on what he now calls the singlestick control. The patent was issued in 1914, will expire Nov. 3 next. Seven years ago Esnault-Pelterie filed suit against the U. S. because planes used by Army & Navy had joy-sticks.* Also he sued Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Co. and Chance-Vought Corp. for their commercial planes. The Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should his claim be upheld. Inventor Esnault-Pelterie...
...hours flight, including considerable test and night flying. In demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...