Originally Posted by
thnarg
Oh well that narrows it down to a few thousand!
A big name like Curtiss or a couple of obscure guys working in a garage somewhere?
Let me try and narrow it down for you.
Check out this guy - Jake Moellendick - apparently a bit of a dick in real life, but he funded an aeronautical company with a few "obscure guys" who later branched out on their own and eventually became big names in American aviation.
The machine above with the twin OX-5 engines, was involved in a crash with Walter Beech flying it - eventually re-engined with a single 300 hp Packard. All this was somewhere around 1921.
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