1893-1956 |
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Homemade Glider 1909 |
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. 1910 |
Curtiss NC4 1919 |
Missy's China |
Central Aircraft Mfg. Co. Shien Chaio, China 1934 |
Central Aircraft Mfg. Co. Shien Chaio, China 1937 |
G B Arnold Walk Around |
A native of Madisonville, Ky., he was an engineering graduate of the University of Kentucky. Not long after graduation he went to work for the Curtiss Airplane & Motor Co., and in 1925 became factory superintendent of the Buhl Aircraft Co. He then served successively as factory manager of B/J Aircraft Co., in Baltimore, as production engineer and chief inspector of Chance-Vought Corporation at East Hartford, as vice president and general manager of Central Aircraft Manufacturing Co. in China, then as an associate with Curtiss-Wright in Buffalo and in China. During World War II he operated a plant in Miami, manufacturing aicraft parts and other wartime products, and at the conclusion of the war he converted his plant to aluminum jalousies and other building supplies popular in Florida. More recently he entered a similar business in Orlando. If you have any information on this Early Bird, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper Back |