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Curtiss
Speed with Safety

Lieut. Maughan Succeeded With This Combination

When the Army Air Service decided to demonstrate to the world the mobility of American aircraft, they chose a Curtiss product.

Lieutenant Maughan's recent flight from New York to San Francisco between the hours of dawn and dusk was accomplished in a Curtiss designed and built Pursuit plane equipped with a Curtiss D-12 motor and a Curtiss-Reed one-piece duralumin propeller.

This threefold combination is indeed hard to beat, as each one preeminently leads its field. The plane of Curtiss design includes all essentials necessary for high speed racing and high performance military aircraft, among which are:
    Extreme maneuverability with comfort and visibility to the pilot at all times;
    Multispar cellular wings, with covering of spruce planking instead of fabric -- shrapnel proof -- no cloth covering to tear off; 
    Steel tubular fuselage with a readily detachable engine mounting;
    Split axle type of landing chassis, in which shocks are absorbed by rubber discs acting in compression. This chassis, although but a few months old, has already been adopted as the standard type.
    Quickly detachable wing or cellular radiators eliminating resistance heretofore required for cooling;
    Oil temperature regulator, which permits instantaneous starting, even in the coldest weather, and then maintains the proper temperature of the oil while in flight.

The Curtiss D-12 motor, in addition to holding all the speed records of the world, now has to its credit Lieutenant Maughan's achievement. On account of the small frontal area of the D-12 for the first time the size of the pilot rather than the engine controls the size of the fuselage.

The Curtiss-Reed one-piece duralumin propeller, the safest and most efficient propeller ever tested, is unaffected by hail or rain, tall grass, small particles, age or climatic conditions. It too has done its part in winning these high speed and endurance tests. 

The Curtiss Pursuit as a fighting unit has no competitor in the world. It has set new standards for plane, motor, and propeller.

On September 3rd Lieutenant R. C. Moffatt flew from Boston to New York in 58 minutes !

Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company Inc.
Garden City, L. I.    Buffalo, N. Y.