• Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company was an American aircraft manufacturer formed to build the Curtiss Robin aircraft. The company was founded...
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    The Curtiss Robin, introduced in 1928, is an American high-wing monoplane built by the Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company. The J-1 version...
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  • and the Travel Air Manufacturing Company. There were three main divisions: the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division, which manufactured airframes; the Wright...
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  • division named Curtiss-Robertson Airplane Manufacturing Company to build the Curtiss-Robertson Robin aircraft. Robertson left the company in 1933 when it merged...
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    Originally conceived as the Curtiss-Robertson CR-2 Coupe shortly before the Curtiss-Wright merger and the dropping of the Curtiss-Robertson brand, it was an all-metal...
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    Curtiss Field Southwest Air Fast Express - June 1931 1929 Aviation Corporation (AVCO) holding company formed by multiple participants 1932 Airplane Development...
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    military ended its use of airplanes with "pusher" type propellers, including models made by both the Wright and Curtiss companies, in which the engine was...
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    The Curtiss JN "Jenny" is a series of biplanes built by the Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and...
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    Manufacturing Company of Ridgefield, New Jersey (156 units) Robertson Aircraft Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri (170 units) Timm Aircraft Company of...
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    Clermont-Ferrand, France, to train and observe the French company Michelin's airplane manufacture and assembly procedures. Till the end of 1918, it remained...
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    (Replica - Bullock) - 1947 Curtiss JN-4D Jenny - 1917 Curtiss-Robertson CW-1 Junior - 1931 Curtiss-Wright P-40N "Warhawk" - 1943 Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 12-]...
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    with airplanes after seeing one at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. In 1910 he bought the Heath Shipyard, a wooden boat manufacturing facility...
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    taught to fly by Curtiss in 1909, was one Charles Foster Willard, who is also credited as the first to be shot down in an airplane when an annoyed farmer...
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    of the earlier Robertson Skylark SRX-1, built by James Robertson, son of Robertson Aircraft Corporation founder William B. Robertson, in the late 1950s...
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  • Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation is formed as a holding company controlling the stock of the Boeing Airplane...
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    found to be particularly useful as a mailplane. Early commercial passenger airplane service in Europe was initiated with modified variants of the DH-4. War-surplus...
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    Disturbing the Universe, 1979. Mod 913, Avro Manufacturing Drawing Z2511 Mod 925, shown on Avro Manufacturing Drawing X815 Stiriling, Neil. "Lancaster I/III...
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  • monoplane Curtiss Autoplane roadable airplane Curtiss Carrier Pigeon biplane mailplane Curtiss Condor 18 twin-engine biplane airliner Curtiss Cox Racer...
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    Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company saw it and, on returning home, patented it there. As the Hamilton Standard Division of the United Aircraft Company, engineer...
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    Pancho Villa. There, the squadron may have operated some Curtiss JN-3s and possibly some Curtiss N-8s, preparing them to be sent south to Columbus. In December...
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  • airplane meet. With the money from the Legion contract Ball expanded the airfield from 43 to 85 acres. Ball bought his own plane from the Robertson Aircraft...
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    Airline (redirect from Airline company)
    Congress to begin experimenting with air mail service, initially using Curtiss Jenny aircraft that had been procured by the United States Army Air Service...
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    measure of the success of Porte's work is that the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company manufactured the F.5 as the F5L and Aeromarine 75. Acutely aware...
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    of 19 others including his son Edsel, invested in the Stout Metal Airplane Company. Stout, a bold and imaginative salesman, sent a mimeographed form letter...
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    the airport became a manufacturing base for the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) and Curtiss-Wright. After the war...
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  • to Patricia Rawnsley as a "Curtiss with an Anzani engine." F. G. Miles, chiefly responsible for its design and manufacture, built the replica Bristol...
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    amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. In a protest in Curtiss, Wisconsin, against rising feed costs and lower prices for farm products...
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  • Beechcraft airplane. July 24 – (Campo de Marte, Santa Ana, Usaquén, Colombia) – A pilot performing an aerobatic display crashed a Curtiss Hawk II into...
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    Starting with six converted Curtiss JN-4HM "Jennies", two of which were destroyed in crashes, and later using Curtiss R-4LMs, in 76 days of operations...
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    Douglas to design a sleeper aircraft based on the DC-2 to replace American's Curtiss Condor II biplanes. (The existing DC-2's cabin was 66 inches (1.7 m) wide...
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