Akashi-san and Hoppo-chan On: The World's Worst Aircraft

... I'm becoming a studio

Charles Gordon Curtis 1860-1953 An American inventor that developed a two-stage multi-speed impulse turbine (image is substituted by Iowa due to various circumstances)

Speaking of "Curtis" in the field of airplanes, a long-established aircraft manufacturing company in the United States (no longer making fuselages ... obviously) is the Curtis-Wright Company

One of their famous aircraft is the P-40 Warhawk of the Army, but in reality, Curtis has made a lot of Navy aircraft and seaplanes

Glen Hammond Curtis 1878-1930 Founder of Aeroplane & Motor Company which became the origin of Curtis-Wright Company (Image substitutes for easily understandable Curtis depending on circumstances)

When speaking of Curtis, it is said that this is the Brown & Curtis type turbine, one of the original stories of the shipbuilding type turbine

By the way, the "Wright" in "Curtis-Wright Company" refers to a merger that Curtis made with the Wright Brothers who achieved the first powered flight

However, since the latter half of the 1930s, it was not possible to make a Wright plane and in 1948, it sold the aircraft sector to become a parts maker

Although this is the story of the last mass-produced machine of Curtis-Wright, honestly calling it "trash" would be difficult since more than 7000 of them were made

*Sold to North American Aviation (now Boeing)