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Curtiss-Wright employed 180,000 workers, and ranked second among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts, behind only General Motors. [9] [10] The main building of the Curtiss-Wright company at Caldwell, New Jersey, 1941. Curtiss-Wright: Biggest Aviation Company Expands Its Empire. This is an overall perspective ...
44-78018 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. [44] 44-78019 – Joe Davies Heritage Airpark in Palmdale, California. [45] C-46F Commando. 44-78573 – 82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum at Fort Liberty near Fayetteville, North Carolina. [citation needed]
The prototype for what would become the C-46, the Curtiss CW-20, was designed in 1937 by George A. Page Jr., the chief aircraft designer at Curtiss-Wright. [4] The CW-20 was a private venture intended to compete with the four-engined Douglas DC-4 and Boeing 307 Stratoliner by the introduction of a new standard in pressurized airliners. [5]
The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company (1909–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer originally founded by Glenn Hammond Curtiss and Augustus Moore Herring in Hammondsport, New York. After significant commercial success in its first decades, it merged with the Wright Aeronautical to form Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
The R-1300 is basically a single row Wright R-2600. The engine was mass-produced but not widely used. Engineering began in 1942 but the first flight of an R-1300 did not take place until 1949. The engine was produced under license by Kaiser-Frazer and later by AVCO Lycoming. [2]
Wright Aeronautical (1919–1929) was an American aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Paterson, New Jersey. [1] It was the successor corporation to Wright-Martin . [ 1 ] It built aircraft and was a supplier of aircraft engines to other builders in the golden age of aviation. [ 1 ]
Metal Improvement Company LLC, part of Curtiss-Wright, is a company specializing in metal surface treatments.. MIC provides multiple technical services for the metal treatment industry, including thermal spray, solid film lubricant and parylene coatings, and materials testing services; but is best known for its legacy shot peening technology, which can enhance the performance of metal ...
This category is for people and things associated with the Curtiss-Wright Company, and its predecessor, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. For people and things associated with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation , see Category:Wright brothers .