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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 ...
The company was founded in 1956 by Prof William Alfred Penny [2] and James Giles. It made high-reliability wire-wound potentiometers for aircraft in flight testing.. In 1957 it made the first aircraft data recorder with magnetic recording on a stainless steel wire, known as a black box.
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.
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
Curtiss called the preparations "restoration" claiming that the only addition to the design was pontoons to support testing on the lake but critics including patent attorney Griffith Brewer called them alterations of the original design. Curtiss flew the modified Aerodrome, hopping a few feet off the surface of the lake for 5 seconds at a time. [8]
Shooting Locations: Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, Rhinebeck, NY; Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, CA Featured Pilots: Cole Palen , John Barker Archival Aircraft: Lilienthal gliders , Wright Glider , Wright flyer , Voisin 1907 biplane , Curtiss Model D Headless Pusher
44-78772 – Glenn H. Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York. It is on loan from the National Air and Space Museum. [48] Under restoration or in storage C-46D Commando. 44-77559 – in storage at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California. [49] C-46F Commando. 43-47218 – in storage at the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California. [50] [51]
The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver is a dive bomber developed by Curtiss-Wright during World War II. As a carrier-based bomber with the United States Navy (USN), in Pacific theaters , it supplemented and replaced the Douglas SBD Dauntless .