![]() Regarding his crop dusting attachment, a patent was issued for it in 1942. Franklin, 341 North Market, and his mother, Mrs. ![]() S., of Phoenix, Joe and Carroll, of New Market, Alabama, Will of Houston, Texas, and Thomas, 341 North Market in Wichita, and one sister, Mrs. Survived by wife, Alice Jane, two sons, Eldon, of the home and James, of Los Angeles, California, five brothers, H. Past 18 years he has sold ladybird beetles for control of infestations of foliage eating insects. Built one of the first crop dusting attachments for an airplane and dusted crops several years before coming to Wichita. Quick, former Cessna Aircraft Company test pilot. "Report of death yesterday at his home in Phoenix, Arizona at age 60 of George C. The company seems to have been a family affair. Quick was also an officer in the short-lived Quick Motor Company, as reported in the Wichita Eagle of Wednesday, October 3, 1928. Brands such as Travel Air, Cessna, Lark, Stearman, Laird and Swallow were manufactured there.Įach airplane needed an engine. ![]() ![]() During the late 1920s, Wichita was a very active area in aircraft manufacture in the U.S. He was solo the second time.Īt one point, George Quick was a test pilot for the Cessna Aircraft company in Wichita. They were westbound from Lordsburg, NM to San Diego, CA. On his first landing he carried three unidentified passengers. Quick also visited twice in the Bellanca NC196N, on Sunday, Novemand on Tuesday, January 5, 1932. Please direct your browser to Brophy's link to learn about the fate of this prolific Golden Age pilot. No reason for their flight was given in the Register. He carried two passengers, Register pilot Glenn Warren Brophy and W.H. This time he was southeast bound from Phoenix, AZ to El Paso (and this time he got the registration number right). Based at El Paso, TX, he was on a round-robin flight back to El Paso. His first landing, on March 8, 1929, was solo (note in the Register he mis-wrote his airplane registration number as "NC6647," which is a Ryan B-1 Brougham, S/N 132). His first two landings at Tucson were in the Cessna BW (S/N 147) NC6447. A small photograph of Quick is at passenger Bert White. In the Rodengen book in the REFERENCES, he is called Curtis Quick and flew with Clyde Cessna during the 1928 National Air Races in a Cessna model AA. George Curtis Quick visited Tucson four times. Or use this FORM to order a copy signed by the author. To pilots and their aircraft is available at the link. Your copy of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register with all the pilots' signatures and helpful cross-references National Air & Space Museum (NASM), Washington, DC. ![]() View products that support įile for pilot Quick in the archives of the They were delivered to the Army in 1963.Their registration numbers were 5402, later changed to 5432.The GEORGE CURTIS QUICK Page of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Website As these two had a more powerful engine (Lycoming 0-360- A1A of 180 hp) than the prototype, they were called MFI-10B and got the Army designation FPL 54. The two last were ordered by the Army for evaluation. Its tail-wheel made it possible to use unprepared landing strips and it could take off in only 180 metres. The Vipan was a high-winged design to give good visibility. And, not least it would be in the market as a pure private aircraft. It would also be possible to use the aircraft as a flying ambulance and as a trainer, tug and for photographing. This new four-seat aircraft would be suitable for the Army’s need of fire direction and liaison. MFI started in 1955 to design a larger aircraft than the MFI-9. If the MFI-9 became a success, the MFI-10 unfortunately became the opposite. The same year the MFI-10 ”Vipan” (”the Lapwing”) began its flying trials. :ok:ĪB Malmö Flygindustri (MFI) first commercial success - the small MFI-9 - took to the air in 1961. ![]()
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