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DESIGNER UNKNOWN LEARN TO FLY / CURTISS - WRIGHT FLYING SERVICE. Circa 1930s. 21 1/2x16 inches, 54 1/2x40 1/2 cm. Condition A-: minor scuffing and abrasions in image; minor creases at edges. Silkscreen. Matted and framed. In 1910, Glenn Curtiss founded the Curtiss Flying School as a competing program to the Wright brothers' own flying school. The organization closed for good after World War I, when the U.S. Army briefly took control of the school. In 1929, 12 affiliated companies - most notably these two main competitors - merged to form Curtiss-Wright. It was the largest aviation company in the country, with divisions that built airframes, engines and propellers. At this time, the company's engines were called Wrights, and the airplanes themselves, Curtisses. The company built planes for commercial and private buyers, but its biggest production client was the military during WWII, employing 180,000 workers (Wikipedia). This poster illustrates a bi-plane flying over the hangars in Bridgeport Airport in Stratford, Connecticut, where Curtiss had opened a branch of his school in 1928.
