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Cleveland's announced reason for transferring the races: the discovery that ten-day meets in one spot in successive years were more than the public would support. A possible solution offered in the February Aero Digest by Associate Editor Cyril Cassidy ("Cy") Caldwell: Let each year's races be operated like a road show, playing three or four days in, say, New York about Decoration Day; another few days in Philadelphia around July 4; thence to Boston, Chicago, St. Paul, ending in Cleveland on Labor...
...five-minute Brazil-wide silence followed. Sea & land planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged figure built by the dead man. All airplane manufacturers were asked to plaque Santos-Dumont's likeness on all new planes. The Brazilian Aero League asked pilots the world over to wear crepe on their wing insignia for one year, keep silence for five minutes during the burial...
...Gates's performers was Clyde Pangborn who flew around the world last year and got into trouble with Japanese authorities for taking photographs over forbidden area. Said "Cy" Caldwell, associate editor of Aero Digest: ". . . If Ivan had been on the job, Clyde not only could have taken the pictures but Ivan would have charged the Mikado $10 for looking at them and sold him a snapshot of himself and a bag of peanuts for $1 more...
While one publisher was pulling in his horns last week another, hitherto not widely famed, was looming on the horizon of U. S. magazine publishing. The advancing figure was that of gruff-voiced Frank Aloysius Tichenor, publisher of Aero Digest and Sportsman Pilot. Last week found him in control of a strange new collection: The Spur, Plumbers' & Heating Contractors' Trade Journal, The Port, Outlook & Independent...
...publisher of Aero Digest (acquired 1922) he has bitterly attacked what he thought was graft, sham, inefficiency, stupidity in the aeronautics industry and in Government functions affecting aviation. All but fanatical on the subject of national defense, he preached the gospel of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell. Last year he hired Major General James Edmond Fechet, retired head of the Army Air Corps, as "national defense editor" of Aero Digest. In his editorial column "Air?Hot & Otherwise" Publisher Tichenor consistently baits Senator Hiram Bingham, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautic Association, occasionally the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce...