Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 274, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1929 — Page 7

APRIL 1929.

—Aviation — DETROIT’S AIR SHOW TO SET ENTRY RECORD 107 Sky Craft Listed for Display at Exposition Opening Saturday. B " l. >">• '1 r. • DETROn. April • The .second All-Ameri( tin Aircral' hov opening here Saturday. will be the largest ever held, according to the number of entries announced by the aviation event: committee of the Detroit Board of Commerce, sponsoring the exhibition. The show has been given national sanction by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce.

hlbitions. airplane and accessory mnnufactUM rs apparently have pointed for Mw Dot roil how. because of the trf mendotis interest in aviation in Detroit, the previous success oi the city in aeronautic events, anti the national sanction. Convention hall, with 86.000 square feet of exhibition space, all on the street floor level, will be jammed with airplanes and accessories. The list of planes numbers 107. ranging in every type from giant three-moiored c.aft to light sport machine.’ Accessory Firms Exhibit More than lOu accessory companies will be represented. Several companies, whose applications ior space were submitted late, will be unable to show their planes in the building and will keep them at Ford Airport during the week. The entire show program, including the many meetings and other events scheduled for the week, will be under direction of the board of commerce committee, oi which Edward S. Evans is chairman. Others taking an active part in the management are William B. Mavo. chief engineer ot the Ford Motor Company; Frank Blair, president of the Union Trust Company, and Captain Bay Collins. A feature of the show will be the Curtiss Flying Service displays in conjunction with the opening of the new- Michigan division in its nationwide chain of schools, airports, and service stations. The varied types of Curtiss planes, two differcntlymotored Curtiss Robins and an Ireland Amphiplanc. ail of which are to be used by the Detroit school and airport, on Grossc lie. will be in Convention hall, while the huge Sikorsky air yacht, too large to be taken into the building, will be shown at. the docks of the Detroit Yacht Club. Fairchild Sends Twenty Possibly the largest delegation to attend will be from the Fairchild Aviation Corporation of Farmingdale. L. I. Sherman M. Fairchild, president of th> rone n, will take a staff of twenty to the exposition. The company w ill have three monoplanes in the show, two of the peven-passenger transport, type and one light. low wing training plane. The Fairchild mapping cameras and other accessories also will be on display. Among planes to he shown that have been used on spectacular or historical flights will he the Avro Avian used by Lady Mary Heath on her record-breaking trips between England and Africa. This plane is placed in the show by the Whittelsey Manufacturing Company of Bridgeport. Conn.. American builders of the famous English deficit of light plane. Columbia Aii Liners. Tnc.. of which Charles A. Levine is president. will have the new Columbia Triad in the city during the week. Cleveland to Get Airport CLEVELAND. 0.. April s.—Construction of an entirely new and modern 140-acre airport, to be owned and managed by the Curtiss Flying Service, will be undertaken here by the Curtiss company, according to announcement by Charles S. < Casey * Jones, president of Curtis Flying Service. Inc. The new airport will place Cleveland within the nation-wide chain of airports and air fields now operated bv the Curtiss company in more than twenty-five American cities. Autogiro Pilot Gets Prize ** PARIS. April s.—The 1078 Lahm prize of 30.000 francs 'about $1,173'. donated annually by Frank Lahm. Canton. 0.. tor the most interesting accomplishment in aerial locomotion. was awarded today to Juan de La Cierva. for his autogiro flight from London to Fans, lahm w a* winner of the first Gordon Bennett balloon cup rare.

Planes to Get Service ''NEW YORK. April rv—Airplane owners soon will bo able to obtain repair and replacement service for their motors at 36 points scattered over the country as complete as that offered by automobile stations, according; to plans of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, largest American manufacturers of airplane engines. The Wright corporation already lias established eleven agencies in connection with principal flying fields, equipped to care for major epairs. and is supplementing these with twenty-five service stations located to place its sen ice within easy reach of every owner of a Wright engine. This chain also will be expanded as the growth of aviation warrants, says Charles L. Lawrence, president of the corporation, outlining the plan in the current Sales Management magazine. Curtiss Sells Engines GARDEN CITY. L. 1.. April 5. An order for 136 Curtiss Challenger ITo-horse power radical air-cooled engines has beep received by the Curtiss Flying Service, delivery to begin immediately, according to report from L. B. Cooper, in charge of motor and p'ane sales for the Curtiss organization. Sixty Challenge!' motors will he

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Miss Viola Curwood, aviatrix, arti *. and daughter of the late James Oliver Curwood. famed novelist, is engaged to marry M. C. Loutt of High Point N. C. He also is a flier, with a distinguished war record in air corps.

shipped to the Travelair Company of Wichita, Kan., during the remainder of this year. Mr. Cooper -aid. He also stated that seventeen such motors had been delivered to 'his concern. Goebel to Open Air School WASHINGTON. April s.—Art Goebel, one of the most popular ot the famous fliers, is going into business. Os course, he won t stop flying or planning long flights. But. he has decided it is time for Art to make some money. So he is getting ready to start a high-powered flying school. He just has been in Washington, having long talks with the war and commerce departments on flying school organization and requirements. The school will be in Kansas City. Nearly a dozen wealthy Kansas City bankers are barking Goebel. The concern is a closed corporation. There is no stock for sale. Brings New Plane Here Fred J. Maibucher. Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana maintenance engineer. was expected to return this afternoon from Ftiflalo. N. Y.. with anew Curtiss Fledgling training plane, to be used by the Curtiss scohol for student instruction. Passenger to Detroit Lee H. Hottel, traffic manager of Capitol Airways, flew to Detroit today on the Capitol passenger plane to attend the Detroit air show, which starts Saturday. Capitol is offering special passenger round trip rates to the air show for one week. 700 Miles in 5:40 Orville L. < Pinky) Grimes, Hoosier airport, maintenance chief, made a record-breaking flight for an OX-5 motored Travel Air biplane Thursday. when he made the 700 miles here from Wichita, Kan., in 5 hours, 40 minutes. The plane lie brought- from the factory was delivered today by Harold C. Brooks, Hoosier secretarytreasurer, to the St. Joseph Valley Aviation Club. South Bend. Kar! Biedenmeisler accompanied Brooks to South Bend.

Comedians on Sky Hop ■Robert Woolsey and Bert Wheeler. comedians of Rio Rita, appearing here tills week, visited the Mars Hill airport Thursday afternoon and went for an aerial .ioy ride over the city. They were taken up in a. Robin monoplane by Charles E. Cox Jr., assistant general manager of Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana. They enjoyed the trip greatly, Cox said, and are considering buyingf a plane to travel from one city to another with the show. Returns to Louisville Ted Kincanno of the Cardinal Fliers, Louisville, returned there Thursday after bringing two passengers in a Fairchild monoplane to Hoosier airport. St. Louis Airman Here William Brewster, pilot, accompanied by B. Von Hoffman and H. Swintzell of the Von Hoffman Aircraft Company. Lambert field. St. Louis. landed at Hoosier airport, en route to Columbus. 0.. in a Ryan monoplane. Thursday. Champion Flies to Detroit Dale Red" Jackson. Curtiss factory test pile and holder of the barrel roll ~<jmpionship of the world, flew to Detroit today in a Curtiss Robin to attend the Detroit i air show, which opens for one week ; Saturday. Jackson has been giving exhibitions with the Robin for j ten days for the Curtiss Flying Serv--1 ice of Indiana. He returned from a tour of southern Indiana Thursday. Association to Meet Final organisation meeting of the Indiana Aircrafts Trade Association, composed of representatives of local flying companies, will be held April 18. it was decided at a preliminary meeting of the organization comj mittee. Thursday night at the , Chamber of Commrece. Officers will i be elected and constitution and bylaw; adopted at the next meeting. Chairman H. Weir Cook announced.

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