Show navy orders 64 54 new airplanes lV washington ashington five contracts tor for 54 ne new w airplanes of improved types and forty eight air cooled engines at a total cost of were awarded by the navy department the awards represent the first to be made under this fiscal years appropriation tor for naval aeronautics and the machines will be ot of the latest models in lighting training and observation designs the curtiss aeroplane and motor company of garden city N Y under a 51 contra contract ct will build eighteen class VF model F 7 cl C l 1 planes these will be ba a special type shipboard fighter equipped with pratt and whitney horsepower air cooled wasp engines to the chance vought corporation long island city new york went a contract for or 20 model 0 2 ul U l 1 planes lad and spare parts at a cost of they will be an improved type of 0 the present 02 U two seat ero Vought observation machine |