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Among the spectators at the demonstration, showing large teeth in a pleased grin, was Designer Albert Adams Merrill of White Plains, N. Y. who studied aero dynamics with Octave Chanute and Samuel Pierpont Langley before the Wright brothers made their first flight. Spare, spectacled, reddish-bearded and red-nosed; partially deaf; clad in a black overcoat and battered brown hat, his unprepossessing figure was like the popular notion of the hardworking, unfamed inventor...
...this contest as any man living," but repeated the Government's three objections: 1) it could not afford $400,000;* 2) competition between governments was distasteful; 3) participation fomented jealousies among Royal Air Force pilots. Moreover, he revealed, he had tried for 18-months to convince the Royal Aero Club that the Government would give it no help this year. It was the Royal Aero Club's fault that private funds had not been solicited sooner...
...Minister last week. Lady Houston, who inherited $35,000,000 from the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston, offered "to prevent the Socialist Government from being spoilsports" by paying the Schneider expenses beyond what the Government itself could afford. A deputation headed by Sir Philip Sassoon, chairman of the Royal Aero Club, and Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson visited the Prime Minister. From their meetings Mr. MacDonald emerged with a change of mind. The Government would loan R. A. F. pilots for racing and planes for training, but no money. The Royal Aero Club hurriedly planned a nationwide appeal; the Society...
...First she demanded that the entry fee per plane be upped from 5,000 francs to 200,000 francs ($8,000) as a forfeit to be paid by any entrant failing to compete. That, it was explained, was to keep out defaulting publicity-seekers. Then the British Royal Aero Club insisted that France and Italy enter no less than three planes each -which finally they did. Last week, to the incalculable embarrassment of the Royal Aero Club, the MacDonald Government announced it would provide no funds for the team or for the race, which was to be held over...
...figures in Aviation Country Clubs, decided that a magazine of quality would help interest the wealthy in flying, founded The Sportsman Pilot. Neither magazine made money. Last week both were purchased by gruff-voiced, genial Frank A. Tichenor whose business is publishing, who has made a success of his Aero Digest. Under Publisher Tichenor, The Sportsman Pilot will retain most of its present form. In Fore an' Aft increasing emphasis will be laid upon seaplaning, water-gliding, air-yachting. Editorially, Publisher Tichenor, disciple of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell, will continue in all three to hammer upon his favorite notes...