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The Curtiss R3C is an American racing aircraft built in landplane and floatplane form. It was a single-seat biplane built by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.. The R3C-1 [1] was the landplane version and Cyrus Bettis won the Pulitzer Trophy Race in one on 12 October 1925 with a speed of 248.9 mph (400.6 km/h).
Paper towel dispenser empty at the hand-wash sink in the employee area. (Corrected onsite) Inspected May 20, 2024. Aki Japanese Restaurant, 1150 Carlisle St., Penn Township. Violations (Inspector ...
In 1969, Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation, later Cadence Industries, purchased Curtis Circulation from the Curtis Publishing Company. [5] Beginning in 1969 (and lasting until 1995), Curtis became the distributor of Marvel Comics [ 6 ] (Perfect Film had bought out publisher Martin Goodman —owner of Magazine Management Company , the parent ...
The Curtiss SO3C Seamew was developed by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation as a replacement for the SOC Seagull as the United States Navy's standard floatplane scout. Curtiss named the SO3C the Seamew but in 1941 the US Navy began calling it by the name Seagull, the same name as the aircraft it replaced (the Curtiss SOC a biplane type), causing some confusion.
Charles F. Curtis, the founder of the business, was born at Oxford, New York, in 1846, and moved with his parents, John S. Curtis and Elizabeth Carpenter Curtis, to Rochelle, Illinois, in 1856, where he lived and worked on a farm, attending the country schools until he was 19 years old. He then attended school in Chicago one year, came to ...
In February 1996, Helene Curtis agreed to be acquired by Unilever for about $770 million. In contract law, the company is known for the 1963 case Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. v. United States, in which the Superior knowledge doctrine was born. In 1998, the beauty manufacturer had a production site in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. [6] [7]
The Model 53 was an airliner version of the Model 52 Condor B-2 bomber, also introduced in 1929. It was a large, equal span, three bay biplane with parallel pairs of interplane struts . Its wings had a rectangular plan out to rounded tips.
Data from Curtiss Aircraft 1907–1947 General characteristics Crew: two Length: 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m) Wingspan: 40 ft 2 in (12.24 m) Wing area: 340 sq ft (32 m 2) Empty weight: 1,075 lb (488 kg) Gross weight: 1,635 lb (742 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Curtiss OX-2, 90 hp (67 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 70 mph (110 km/h, 61 kn) Endurance: 4 hr Time to altitude: 10 min to 3,000 ft (915 m) See also ...