JAMES VERNON MARTIN 1885-1956

JAMES V. MARTIN Collection of Stéphane Sebile

	The Aviator	The Inventor Tri-Car

 

The pioneer aircraft inventor and manufacturer, Capt. James V. Martin, has filed a $9,000,000 patent infringement suit against the United Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation and its subsidiaries.      Capt. Martin claims infringement upon his patented landing gear, which he claims was invented by him in 1916. Additional suits which "will involve every aircraft manufacturing concern in the country," and which will claim damages amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, are being prepared, according to a member of Martin's legal staff. Undentified clipping from Stéphane Sebile

 

James V. Martin died in 1956 From The Early Birds of Aviation Roster of Members January 1, 1993   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this Early Bird, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back