#curtiss-wright

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A flight of Curtiss P-40 Warhawks.

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N162V Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 4D4 NC162V by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: N162V Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 4D4 NC162V Photo taken at EAA Airventure Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin USA July 2025 HAD_2260

[redarmyscreaming]

Curtiss-Wright Corporation's CW-22 was a 1940s general-purpose advanced training monoplane aircraft.

The CW-22 prototype first flew in 1940, with Curtiss presenting it to customers as a civilian sport or training monoplane or as a combat trainer, reconnaissance and general purpose aircraft for military use. The CW-22 and -22B were sold to the Netherlands, Turkey, and some Latin American countries. Following the outbreak of World War II, the Japanese captured several of the Dutch aircraft and put them in service.

[electronicsquid]

Pilots with P-40s in Buffalo

(Dmitri Kessel. 1941?)

[hagleyvault]

We’re feeling the atomic age, retrofuturist, mid-century modern fantasy this #MotorMonday in our 1960 Curtiss-Wright 'Bee’ Air-Car.

The Bee was based on the 1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air-Car, a 21-foot-long, 8-foot-wide, and 5-foot-tall functioning hover car designed under contract for the department of Army Transportation Research Command.

After the military declared them unsuitable for military use (the vehicles were unreliable on rocky or uneven ground), the Curtiss-Wright Corporation attempted to salvage the project with the Bee, a modified design intended for use by the public. Sadly, the Bee never made it to production, although the U.S. Army Transportation Museum has preserved one of the original Air Cars designed for military use.

This brochure for the experimental automobile is part of the Hagley Library’s Z. Taylor Vinson collection of transportation ephemera (Accession 20100108.ZTV). To view a selection more material from this collection online now, click here to visit its page in our Digital Archive.

[thepopculturearchivist]

AVIATION NEWS, September 17, 1945

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air Car. Source

[stone-cold-groove]

Circa 1944 Whitman Publishing Company trading card - U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.