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...years ago met with Orville Wright, Glenn Hammond Curtiss and other flyers, also with Henry Ford, and suggested ways of industrializing aviation. But until last week he did not enter the field himself. His present essay was to become the largest individual stockholder in the General Aero Corp. and to sell it the Atlantic City Motor Speedway, which he controlled, for a passenger airport...
...Control Board of the U. S. Army Air Service, Personal Representative of the Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service on the Liquidation Committee in France, Air Attache to the U. S. Embassy at Paris (the first ever appointed to such a post), Governor of the Aero Club of America, Treasurer of the National Aeronautic Association, an international banker and authority on conditions in the Eastern Baltic Republics, and a West Point graduate retiring from the Army in 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. 4) That the "onetime Navy aircraft engineer" (Holden Chester Richardson) was, in fact...
...high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree. He alighted. Killed: two Johnson hens, by fright. Injured: Mrs. Johnson's wash, by oil leaking from the treed ship; Student Engel...
...Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane; Doyle Aero Corp. was producing commercial biplanes; a 400-acre municipal airport was under construction; Curtiss Flying Service was building a 360-acre airport...
Enter Raskob. John Jacob Raskob, quiescent financially since he left General Motors to manage the Smith campaign for President, has bought a large stock interest in Aero Supply Manufacturing Co., Inc., called the "oldest aviation accessory enterprise in the country." Aero Supply owns Standard Automatic Products Co. of Corry, Pa., and National Steel Products Co. of Ohio. Rumored: a big Raskob-headed air corporation...