WRIGHT BUILDS FOR SUPREMACY is a 25 and a half-minute long film by Curtiss-Wright that shows the company's products in the era just before WWII. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, the film shows the process by which airplane engines were created at the factory at Patterson, New Jersey (and eventually at four other gigantic factories). Wright Aeronautical Corporation is a division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, which is still in business today. The film itself is narrated by famed broadcaster, announcer, and writer Lowell Thomas.
Opening up the film proper at the 1:00 mark, it starts us off with film footage of the Wright Brothers and their famous airplane that was flown during their initial experiment in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. From there the film goes on to explain how after the famed flight, the Wright Brothers invested and built a company that was designed to continue on with the new-found technology that they had discovered, where the film explains how they successfully became contracted by both the United States Military for airplanes, and the private sector as well and how their company, the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, expanded to eventually own five factories through various industrial cities of the United States.
From there, the film moves onto explain how Wright Whirlwind airplane engines are first created, starting us off with how the molds for the engine parts are cast, using a technique that's known as "sand casting" where they cover the object they're set to replicate with sand, letting it settle in before the forging process is used. From there they use either aluminum or steel to fill the mold, waiting for it to cool before breaking it out.
At the 12:00 minute mark into the process of how each separate part is machined is shown. How after being forged with molten metal, each part is cooled, and then treated and cleaned before being taken through the machining process and being measured, weighed, and then finally with the production section we see it ending with the inspection. This part of the film highlights how the inspection process goes, meant to assure the highest quality of the various different parts as each inspector uses various different calculating tools to look at individual parts. Any parts that fail inspection, as the film describes, is immediately discarded.
At the 16:00 minute mark the assembly portion of the film commences, as we watch a team of mechanics put each separate part of the plane engine together. Roughly 8,000 individual parts have gone into the engine from the production and are now put together in a systematic way. This portion of the film at the 19:30 mark ends with the carburetor being installed upside down as they flipped the engine around, with the explanation given that any object that becomes loose during that process could fall into the engine itself and have catastrophic consequences if not found. So better safe than sorry.
At 20:00 we see the final product being produced, and each of the different engines that the Wright Aeronautical Corporation offers at the time. From Whirlwinds, to Cyclone 9, to Cyclone 14 engines being shown in rapid succession from one another. The film finally ends with the shipping of the engines themselves, flown by air to the various places in the United States where they'll be attached to the planes they were designed for. The film ends showing off the engines being used in motion, on various different planes.
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