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...Plane: a Lockheed-Vega monoplane with a 425 horsepower Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, made the trip at an average speed of 150 m.p.h...
...Georgia Tech was asked to come out West. It seemed at first that a lion was asking a rabbit to come inside his den; when a picked Eastern team last fortnight beat a picked Western team, people thought that perhaps the analogy was that of a bear entertaining a wasp and the odds on the game approached even money...
...toward the horizon. To the entrepreneur, it means stocks, incorporations, earnings, mergers, an infant industry for skilled hands to shape. One such shaping took form last week with the incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William E. Boeing, president of Boeing. Board Chairman: Frederick B. Rentschler, President Pratt & Whitney. Financing handled by National City of Manhattan...
Wright Aeronautical Corp. picked the show week to make a shrewd commercial gesture. Everybody knows the reputation of Wright Whirlwind and Cyclone motors, as they know the reputation of Pratt & Whitney Wasp and Hornet motors. But relatively few know the practical advantages of those motors. So Wright Aeronautical told the many unknowing ones in great advertisements that its $25-h. p. Cyclone is built for the great air lines and heavy-duty express planes, its 3OO-h. p. Whirlwind for multi-motored passenger carriers, its 225-h. p. Whirlwind for medium-sized passenger planes, its 150-h. p. Whirlwind...
...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 its Caminez radial engine. Packard and Velie, among motor car engine makers, have modified their...