SAFETY IN AEROPLANES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19819, 6 January 1930, Page 9

SAFETY IN AEROPLANES.

LITIGATION ARISES OUT OF THE AWARD. (USITEW PRESS ASSOCIATION!—BY ELECTRIC TILEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.) (Received January sth, 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 4. One of the results of the Curtis award has been the filing of a suit by the Handley Page Company, charging an infringement of its slotted wing patents by the Curtis Company and asking for 300,000 dollars damages. A counter suit has been filed by tlw Curtis Com pany to-day for 100,000 dollars in An effort to "conserve its rights." It is moreover rumoured that the Handley Page Company may attempt to secure an injunction against granting the prize. [The Safe Aircraft competition sponsored by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the promotion of aeronautics, provided for a prize of 100,000 dollars for the aeroplane which showed the greatest advance in aerodynamic safety without loss of efficiency, and five prizes of 10,000 dollars each to be awarded to the first five aeroplanes that pass the eligibility tests. The first prize was awarded" to the Curtis Company. The Handley Page entry passed the majority of the qualifying tests, but failed to obtain the minimum gliding speed of 38 miles per hour.]