Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1913 — Unprofitable Flying. [ARTICLE]

Unprofitable Flying.

•"rtere is no money in flying machines. That is why we don’t make good ones here.” The speaker was Courtland Field Bishop, the aviation and automobile expert of New York. He continued. “Being a commercial nation, we shan’t compete successfully with France till flying gets on a paying basis. The basis it is on now is well Illustrated in a little story I’ve just heard. ’“How is that monoplane of yours doing? Any money in it?* one Detroiter asked another. “’Any money in it? I should say so!* was the reply. ’All mine, all my wife's, half my and three fourths of my mother-in-law’s.’ ”