The U.S. post-war aviation
industry shrank in production except for the largest and most diverse of manufacturers, most prominently the Curtiss Aeroplane Company, Sikorsky, Boeing, and Glenn A. Martin. Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1878-1930) sold his company in 1920, leaving well-managed, creative and industrious employees eventually headed by Clement Keys as President. Curtiss remained on the board of the new Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Company in 1929, but soon moved out of the spotlight. Curtiss was one of the most important and famous pioneers in American aviation, but he chose to live his remaining years in Florida as an active developer of new communities.
CONTROVERSY, DISASTER,
HEROES AND MARTYRS Following WWI, The U.S. purchased an airship built in Germany, christened the “Los Angeles.” It made successful flights for a decade until it was retired. During the following years, the U.S. built three more airships christened Shenendoah, Akron, and Macon. Within two years each of these were destroyed in flight crashes. The fate of the helium-equipped Shenendoah on September 3, 1925, in which 14 of the 43 crew were killed was to be remembered as the cause of Col. William “Billy” Mitchell’s (1879- 1936) public criticism of incompetent military leadership. The Shenendoah’s Commander, Zachary Landsdowne, had made the publicity tour flight under protest, when he was ordered to enter air space known to be dangerously turbulent. Landsdowne was one of those who perished as the ship was torn apart by a violent thunderstorm in Ohio. Mitchell’s remarks led to his court-martial trial which lasted seven weeks and resulted in his resignation from service in September of 1926.
While Mitchell advocated for a separate branch of the Air Force, there were others hoping to educate the American public on the prospect of traveling for business or pleasure by air. Once he transitioned from automobiles into aircraft manufacture,
Henry Ford, with William Stout and others, organized the famous Reliability Air Tour of 1925 with the goal of dependability and safety the primary factor over speed. Full-page advertising appeared in aviation publications sponsored
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