EXHIBIT 10 (PAGE 1 OF 3)

                             TENTH AMENDMENT TO THE
                   CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION RETIREMENT PLAN


AMENDMENT, made this 1st day of August, 2000, to the CURTISS-WRIGHT  CORPORATION
RETIREMENT PLAN (hereinafter, "the Plan"):

WHEREAS,  CURTISS-WRIGHT  CORPORATION (herein, "the Company") adopted a restated
defined benefit plan for the Company's employees; and

WHEREAS,  Article-12  of the Plan  permits  the Company to amend the Plan at any
time and from time to time; and

WHEREAS,  the  Company  has  decided  to amend the Plan to provide  for  special
additional benefits for certain  participants who are affected by a reduction in
force at a Company facility,

NOW,  THEREFORE,  the  CURTISS-WRIGHT  CORPORATION  RETIREMENT PLAN shall be and
hereby is amended in the following respects:

1.   A new Section-4.08  shall be added at the end of Article-4,  which new
     section shall be effective as of August 1, 2000 and shall read in its
     entirety as follows:
     "4.08    Supplemental Credits
              (a)     For each  Participant  employed  at the  Employer's
                      Target  Rock  operations  and  whose  employment  with the
                      Employer is terminated  between  August 1, 2000 and August
                      15, 2000, in connection with or as a result of a reduction
                      in force at the Target  Rock  operations,  a  supplemental
                      credit

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                      shall be  added to his  Escalating  Annuity  Benefit.  The
                      amount of such supplemental credits shall be determined as
                      follows:  an amount equal to the product of (i) 4/75, (ii)
                      his number of years of Service,  and (iii) his weekly base
                      rate of pay, provided,  however,  that the number of years
                      of Service  taken into account for this purpose  shall not
                      be less  than 4 years and  shall  not be  greater  than 24
                      years.

              (b)     For purposes of Section  4.03(b),  the  supplemental
                      credits  added  to  a  Participant's   Escalating  Annuity
                      Benefit in  accordance  with this section shall be treated
                      in the same manner as the Pay Based Credits  earned by the
                      Participant  during  the year in which  such  supplemental
                      credits were added.

              (c)     The  supplemental  credits  added  to a  Participant's
                      Escalating Annuity Benefit in accordance with this section
                      shall be  payable  in the same  manner  and under the same
                      conditions as amounts  credited to his Escalating  Annuity
                      Benefit under Section-4.02."

2.   A new subsection (c) shall be added at the end of Section 5.02,  which
     new  subsection  shall be  effective as of August 1, 2000 and shall read in
     its entirety as follows:  "(c) Special  Provision for Reduction in Force at
     Target  Rock  Operations.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  hereof  to  the
     contrary,  a Participant  whose  employment with the Employer is terminated
     between  August 1, 2000 and August 15,  2000,  in  connection  with or as a
     result of a reduction in force at the Target Rock operations  shall be 100%
     vested  in  his  Normal  Retirement  Benefit  and  his  Escalating  Annuity
     Benefit."

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, and as evidence of the adoption of this Tenth Amendment, the
Company has caused the same to be executed by its duly  authorized  officers and
its corporate seal to be affixed hereto this 1st day of August, 2000.
ATTEST:                                             CURTISS-WRIGHT CORPORATION
                                                    RETIREMENT PLAN COMMITTEE



                                                    Paul J. Ferdenzi, Secretary


                                                    Gary Benschip, Member


                                                    Robert A. Bosi, Member


                                                    Joyce Quinlan, Member