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...through William P. MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, between January and July of 1927, aircraft manufacturers made more planes than during all of 1926. At present, working two and three shifts of mechanics, they cannot supply the demand excited by the summer transoceanic flights and by the airmail success...
Another boy constructed a glider and flew 1,000 feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...
Flying the Stinson Detroiter monoplane, Pride of Detroit, which won the Ford Reliability Tour this year, businessman Edward F. Schlee (oil) and onetime airmail pilot William S. Brock set out to circle the globe in record time...
...your road. Drawing nearer, you see a reflector revolving on a small tower of skeletal steel, a land lighthouse functioning impersonally in solitude. You pass, and see a fainter arm of light waving over the hills ahead, the next eye. They are the night beacons for the U. S. airmail...
Less solemn than this, more comical was the letter sent Mr. Ford by airmail from the Welcoming Committee of the Rockaway Chamber of Commerce. The Rockaways are a group of up-&-doing suburbs of New York. Charles A. Levine, transatlantic flyer, has friends there, and it is to do him honor when he returns from Europe that the Welcoming Committee is functioning. Its Chairman, shrewd Richard M. Gipson, wrote Mr. Ford: "At this time, when you have magnanimously attested your faith in the Jewish people, it would seem fitting that you should be present at the banquet to be held...