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Title: Learn to Fly |
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Description: The Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, a division of the Curtiss-Wright aircraft manufacturing Corporation, operated a large chain of flying schools across the United States in the 1920’s and 30’s. These schools featured a unique standardized method of instruction that taught hundreds of private and commercial pilots how to fly. They also served as demonstration and sales points for the Corporation’s newly developed commercial airplanes. "The Fledgling," the plane pictured on this poster, was the standard training machine. The Curtiss-Wright Corporation was formed in 1929 when the companies of the two biggest and oldest rivals in American aviation merged. Glenn Curtiss had been experimenting with flight at the same time as the Wright Brothers and they had been battling each other in court for years before this merger took place. Curtiss-Wright went out of business after World War Two. |
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