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The Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute was an early professional trade school operated by the Curtiss-Wright corporation for aircraft maintenance training. [1] [2] Director Major C. C. Moseley was one of only three school directors selected across America to set the standards for the pre-World War II civilian pilot training program.
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 ...
Calspan Corporation is a science and technology company founded in 1943 as part of the Research Laboratory of the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division at Buffalo, New York. Calspan consists of four primary operating units: Flight Research, Transportation Research, Aerospace Sciences Transonic Wind Tunnel, and Crash Investigations.
Created in 1929 from the consolidation of Curtiss, Wright, and various supplier companies, the company was immediately the country's largest aviation firm and built more than 142,000 aircraft engines for the U.S. military during World War II.
Prototype Convair XB-36 Peacemaker 42-13570, on a test flight out of Fort Worth Army Air Field in Texas with two test pilots, seven Convair flight test crew, three US Army Air Force observers, and two employees of Curtiss-Wright (to run electronic tests on propeller vibrations, had an explosion of a hydraulic retracting strut as the starboard ...
The French ordered Douglas DB-7 (A-20) two-engine light bombers; [3] Curtiss P-36 Hawks, [4] and some Curtiss P-40D Warhawks, although the P-40s were never delivered. [5] However, it was Britain's Royal Air Force which needed massive reinforcement, especially after the losses it incurred on the continent during the German invasion of the Low ...
First Curtiss YC-76 Caravan constructed at the Louisville, Kentucky plant, 42-86918, loses tail unit at 1729 hrs. due to lack of "forgotten" securing bolts during test flight, crashes at Okolona, Kentucky, killing three Curtiss-Wright test crew, pilot Ed Schubinger, co-pilot John L. "Duke" Trowbridge, and engineer Robert G. Scudder. All-wood ...
Within a year, the enterprise was sold to the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, [32] managed by C. C. Moseley, a co-founder of the future Western Airlines. It became the city's largest employer. It was also at Grand Central that Moseley established the first of his private flying schools, Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute (later renamed Cal-Aero ...