#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!

[stone-cold-groove]

A flight of Curtiss P-40 Warhawks.

[usafphantom2]

Helldiver 🇺🇸

@AcePilotAv via X

[usafphantom4]

Curtiss H-75A-1 Hawk wears the Armée de l’Air standard three-tone scheme, with her GC 11/5 markings on her port, and the Lafeyette Escadrille Sioux Indian head motif (the TFC logo) on her starboard side.

@ron_eisele via X

[nocternalrandomness]

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

[usafphantom-2]

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

@Sylvia70485099 🇫🇷🇺🇦via X

[bigglesworld]

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

[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 9175: C-GTXW, Curtiss C-46A Commando, Air Manitoba, Winnipeg, June 22, 1993.

Air Manitoba, previously also known as Northland Air Manitoba, was formed in 1986 on the AOC of Illford Riverton Airways in order to operate scheduled passenger and freight services in Northern Manitoba from its base in Winnipeg. It was co-owned by the Native Development Corporation and thus also offered its services to native communities. It ceased trading in 1994.

While Air Manitoba relied on the British built Hawker-Siddeley HS-748 (later known as BAe 748) for passenger flights, its freight business was conducted with the help of a varying fleet of vintage Curtiss C-46 Commandos. In total, seven units of the bulky military transport served with Air Manitoba over the years, with incidents and accidents occasionally taking out a fleet member and calling for a replacement.

C-GTXW nick-named «Old Lady» went to Kenya in 1994 to fly relief missions. When she returned to Canada in 1996 she was acquired by famous propliner refuge Buffalo Airways of Yellowknife, NT, where she flew-on hauling cargo until she was damaged in a gear-up landing in September 2015.

[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)

[stone-cold-groove]

Cargo without convoy.

[usafphantom2]

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

@AcePilotAV via X

[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!!

[nocternalrandomness]

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

[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/

[captain-price-unofficially]

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