#curtiss wright

[aviatrix-ash]

I've met this lovely gal many times before, but still every time, she steals me 😌💕

She's a Curtiss Wright 16E built in 1936! 87 years old and still airworthy! One of maybe 2 or 3 16Es still capable of flying today. Her engine is a Curtiss Wright J-6 (a very rare engine, only 500 made- and this museum has 2!)! This aircraft was intended to be a trainer for pilots training for higher performance aircraft. The infamous Boeing Stearman won that bid back in the day, which is why Stearmans are much more common than this plane. Instead it was adopted as a trainer by the militaries of Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, and Ecuador. Im told this particular airplane was flown by famous Brazilian aviaton pioneer Alberto-Santos Dumont!

[usafphantom2]

An SB2C Helldiver from Bombing Squadron VB-86 approaching the USS Wasp, an Essex-class carrier, near Japan in 1945.

@AcePilotAV via X

[nocternalrandomness]

Seagull SOC-3A from VS-201 onboard the carrier USS Long Island photographed on 16 Dec. 1941

[bigglesworld]

Curtiss-Wright aircraft. In the 1920s, Death Valley was promoted as a 'diabolically divine' winter destination.

[stone-cold-groove]

Cargo without convoy.

[usafphantom-2]

Japanese Zero chased by an American P-40 "Flying Tiger

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[impact-newswire]

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[teledyn]

This is similar enough to the craft used in Godzilla Minus One, anyone know if there really is a connection?

Update: possibly the copying is the other way around?

One of the two prototypes was appropriated by the US military during occupation, the other 'scrapped', and this third graciously reconstructed for an aviation museum by an anonymous mystery company (TOHO)

[mourning-again-in-america]

I'm deeply impressed by the depth of analysis devoted to the war powers in the conlaw casebook I acquired (Paulsen, Calabresi S., McConnell, Bray, and Baude, 2014), tho I wish it enlightened more on the international law aspects at least as they're conlaw aspects -- can a head of state or commander in chief normally authorize the deployment of troops to a consenting country without an act of positive law? what are the statements or cases (if any) on "pre-emptive self-defense" or on the taking of prizes of neutrals running a blockade? did the blockade need to be anticipated? what if an easily accessible friendly port was accessible from the point of realization of the blockade on the part of the neutral's captain? how am I supposed to reason about the prize cases or the second gulf war!!

[bikebound]

Today on BikeBound.com: 1700cc Single! “Hackel-Wright” chopper by @alhackel, built around a single jug off a 975 c.i. (~16,000cc) Wright R975-46 9-cylinder air-cooled radial helicopter engine! This was the ultimate refinement of the Wright-designed, Continental-built 975 Whirlwind engine that powered the Sherman tank, Beechcraft Staggerwing, Curtiss Sparrowhawk, UH-25 Army Mule, and much more. @alhackel originally planned to build a Knucklehead till he learned what that would cost. “I found the [Wright] cylinder head on ebay and thought it was pretty neat looking so I decided to build a motor around it.” Al had to make a custom case, conrod, and 5-piece crankshaft for the engine. Justin Leineweber (@leinewebercambuilds) ground the custom cam and @maritimerglassworks blew the trick glass headlight, taillight, velocity stacks, and shift knob. Make sure to swipe for closeups! 🐙🧐🔥 What’s it like to ride? “Equal parts abject terror and unbelievable euphoria. It will shake your fittings loose, but tracks smooth down the road.” The Hackel-Wright was featured at both @handbuiltshow and @the1moto. Photos: @themerryprairie. Full story and gallery today on ⚡️BikeBound.com⚡️ ——— #radialengine #bobber #chopper #kustom #thumper #bigsingle #wrightengines #hackelwright #singlecylinder #bobbers #choppers #chopcult #custombike #handbuilt #the1moto #glassart #kustomkulture #chopperlife #bikebound via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/C_frHeKO6EO/

[usafphantom2]

During filming of Tora Tora Tora! in 1970, a R/C fibreglass replica P-40 with a dummy pilot served out of control and smashed into a row of static replicas. The footage was so spectacular it stayed in the film. The extras seen running for their lives were not acting!

@petehill854 via X

[nocternalrandomness]

1931 Travel Air taking off from RAF Keevil during the Great Vintage Flying Weekend

[captain-price-unofficially]

Test-firing a P-40E Kittyhawk guns at the Curtiss Wright firing range at Buffalo, New York. March 1942.

[stone-cold-groove]

Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk Airship Fighter seen with the USS Macon mothership - 1932.

[mercurygray]

Cordelia Callaway - Masterlist

Flying is in Cord Callaway's blood. Her father flew for the Signal Corps in the last war and currently works as a supervisor for Curtiss-Wright in Dayton, Ohio, where she grew up around factory floors and technical specs. Her father took her up in a biplane when she was about ten, and she’s never looked back, transitioning straight back to the factory herself after her degree was finished. She might have had a direct ticket to the test field at Dayton if she hadn’t elected to go overseas first. She’s not a flashy flier, but a reliable one - a woman that other people look to for answers and reassurance. Answers willingly to Cord, Cordelia, or Callaway, and grudgingly to Cordy. Since they won’t quite give her a plane, she’s working the flight control desk, and will be damned if a single one of these pilot's deaths is her fault.

Determined to show her worth to the Army, she's not going to let anyone - including an extremely tall Air Force major from Wisconsin- stand in the way of doing her job well.

First Impressions (May 1943)

Breakfast Club (May 1943)

Iceberg (June 1943)

First One In (June 25, 1943)

the smell of perfume (?? 1943)

Reality and Sense (?? 1943)

Daisy Chain (?? 1943)

[rockyp77mk3]

Curtiss P-40 Warhawk Production at the Curtiss-Wright Factory in Buffalo NY - 1941.