Many engine builders pursued customers in both the automotive and aviation fields, Lycoming perhaps the best known among them. It wasn’t for lack of trying that Glenn Curtiss is omitted from that list today, as we see in Keith Marvin’s story in SIA #76, August 1983, recording Curtiss’s efforts to place the OX-5 V-8 in […]

One of the requests for the March Military Campaign that I fielded this year came from Myron Vernis, who asked if we’d yet written about the Mighty Mite. I searched our archives to find out that not only had we not written about it, but also that I was frequently confusing the Mighty Mite with […]