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 Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2013 7:48 am Post subject: Travel Air 16 |
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Good Morning 'Lectric Bob,
I do believe the Model 16 was from the Travel Air days and was the last product before Curtiss Wright elected to shut down the Travel Air Division.
Walter had inspired Ted Wells to come up with a high speed biplane using the latest NACA data, and that was to be the Travel Air Model 17. When Curtiss Wright made the decision to dump Travel Air, they offered Walter a job as a Vice President of Curtiss Wright. He declined and asked to be able to take Ted Wells and his design back to Wichita to build under his own name. That became his severance package!
All of the above is well documented in the Book Staggerwing available in Tullahoma, Tennessee, from the Beechcraft Heritage Museum folks.
The Travel Air Model 16 was a very nice open cockpit sport biplane.
Happy Skies,
Old Bob
In a message dated 8/1/2013 5:00:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelectric.com writes:
| Quote: | At 01:21 PM 8/1/2013, you wrote:
| Quote: | Bob -
I imagine a deserved sense of satisfaction on your part - Seeing
some promise in this company in which you invested a fair amount of time. |
Yeah, it's sorta like watching some of the
things your kids do after they leave home
and wondering where you went wrong! But
core values, no matter how obscured,
can emerge under the right conditions.
There were times when I would have thought
my children's present achievements were
completely out of reach . . . but after
20 years, mom and I couldn't be more pleased.
Perhaps there's a spark of resurrection
left from this company's legacies.
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Just discovered that there was a Model 16 built
out in the Liberal facility. It post dates
the Model 17 by many years. Only one ever
built . . . Olive Ann didn't like it and nixed
the program.
I'll have to see if any pictures of it
still exist. Being a one-of experimental,
it seems unlikely.
Bob . . . |
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