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| | GLENN H. CURTISS: Founder of The American Aviation Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Then the big and little Americas (of 1916-18) and their descendants, the F boats of Felixstowe, from which descend all
trans-Atlantic boats...Then the N.C. boats, first across the Atlantic, and the string of Curtiss record-breakers, and Schneider winners. |
 | | And the D-12 engine, from which the Rolls Falcon, and ultimately the Merlin are descended...So far as I know there is nobody in the World who has claim to have influenced aircraft design and production as he did, or had done. |
 | | But the capitalists who bought the bogus Wright patents ganged up on Curtiss and `slapped him down,' as they say in the States, and he was too proud to fight back on propaganda. |
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