Vought, Russell R., 265, 267 Vought airplanes, Corsairs, 124, 140, 156, 187, 193, 257-258, 265 dive bomber, SBU, 187-191 UO, 43, 48, 50, 117 Vought-Sikorsky Division, United Aircraft, 229 (_See also_ Chance Vought Corporation) W Wagner, Frank D. (Honus), 118, 123-124, 131-133, 137-138, 141, 144, 150-152, 182 Walsh, Raycroft, 168, 170-171, 205, 214, 229, 263-264 War contracts, 273-274 canceling of, 15-16, 237, 275, 286 escalator clause in, 250 War debt, 95 War Investigating Committee, 258 War production, 237, 247 and private industry, 235-236 War Production Board, 249, 277, 286 Ward, J. C., 273, 277 Warner, Ed, 104 Warner, Seth, 118 _We_, 104-108 Webb, Lt. L. D., 78 West Coast Aircraft War Production Council, 265, 269 Westover, General, 213, 216 Wheat, George S., 52, 67, 168, 185 White, Capt. R. Drace, 8, 145-147 Whiteside, Arthur D., 290 Whiting, Kenneth, 21, 145-146, 151 Wick, Skinny, 140, 147 Wilbur, Curtis D., 64, 103-104 Wiley, Admiral, 150 Willgoos, Andy, 30, 55 Williamson, Fred, 282 Willis, Charles F., Jr., 307-308 Willis Air Service, Inc., 307 Wilner, Mort, 286 Wilson, Charles E., 277, 286 Wilson, Eugene E., address before Union League Club, Chicago, 254 on Admiral Nulton’s staff, 151-159 airplane crack-up of, 100-101, 186 assigned to _Langley_, 111 as author, 93, 287-289 automobile accident to, 198 education of, 2-4 elected president of United Aircraft Corporation, 229 at Great Lakes, 5-6 on Hawaiian cruise, 122-128 joins Pratt and Whitney, 198 joins United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, 160 made president, 178 made senior vice-president, 182 as Lindbergh’s technical adviser, 104-108 made chief, Airplane Design Section, 93 made chief, Engine Section, 9 made president, Chance Vought Corporation, 164 made president, Sikorsky, 164 marriage of, 2 before Murray Committee, 274 on Panama maneuvers, 135-148 at Pensacola, 82-92 poem by, 83 private office of, 226-227 resignation from business, 289 resignation from Navy, 158 Wilson, Mrs., 2, 7, 27, 81, 92, 101, 109, 125, 158-159, 266 Wilson, Woodrow, 247 Wind tunnels, 188 Wing flaps, 174 Wing loading, 180 Woodhead, Harry, 273, 277 Woodring, Harry, 233 Woolson, Capt. Lionel, 35, 42, 78 World War I, 4, 14-16, 58, 95, 101, 115, 123, 208, 210, 213, 222, 246-247, 259, 266 World War II, 168, 171, 178, 191-192, 194, 195, 209, 222, 246, 288, 295 _Wright_, seaplane tender, 6, 22, 82, 84, 135 Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 16-17, 29-32, 43, 50-52, 54-55, 73, 106, 153, 197-198, 238-239, 285 fraud accusation against, 258 wartime plant of, 252 (_See also_ Curtiss-Wright; Wright Martin) Wright Apache, 73 Wright brothers, 13-14, 113, 184, 308