Word: aircrafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Downey, Cal. (making a solo endurance record); Edward J. ("Red") Devereaux, of Woodside, L. I., Mrs. Devereaux, and Edward J. Reiss of New York (at Boston, racing from Philadelphia). Injured: Lady Mary (Sophie Elliott-Lynn) Heath, near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing from the races to greet the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst); Norma Stevens of Columbus, Ohio (parachute jumping); N. K. Lankford, Navy flyer (crashed at Lorain, Ohio...
Cleveland Air Industry. A queer phenomenon is that Cleveland, vast industrial community, has only one airplane factory-Great Lakes Aircraft Corp. In existence less than a year, it occupies the Glenn L. Martin Co. bomber plant, which that concern abandoned for new facilities at Baltimore. Great Lakes Aircraft president is Benjamin Frederick Castle, 45, onetime Army flyer who went into banking. His chief designer is Holden Chester Richardson, 50, onetime Navy aircraft engineer. They are producing airworthy sport, training, amphibian and cabin planes in small numbers...
Several airplane sales agencies conduct schools, taxi services or hops: U. S. Air Lines, Dungan Airways, Cleveland Institute of Aviation, Skyways, Stewart Aircraft Corp., Floyd J. Logan Aviation Co., Curtiss Flying Service (now being...
Ingenious Colonel Green has many mechanical interests. He has a radio station at his estate in South Dartmouth, Mass. He cooperates with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Goodyear Rubber Co. in aircraft and is considering building a 1,000 foot beacon for airship guidance (a taller structure than any in the world). He is said to use an adding machine to compute mah jong scores. He spends his winters in Texas, his summers in Massachusetts, has five girls as wards whom he educates. He disapproves of charity and charge accounts...
...Detroit. The world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...