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...sparrowhawk started to chase a carrier pigeon across the Atlantic last week. When 500 miles out they met the Cunarder Caronia, both were contented to alight, to be put in a single cage where they completed their crossing in avian amiability...
Miss Johnson's further objective was to beat the record of Flyer Harolc J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler who flew the same distance in 152 days (TIME. March 5, 1928).? All Britain hailed that flight?done in an 875-lb. Avro Avian at total cost of $250 ?as epochal in the history of aviation. Enthusiastic statesmen proclaimed that Hinkler "had outclassed Lindbergh...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...
...steel hangar is capable of housing fifteen planes and is also equipped with a first-class machine shop. A $10,000 restaurant, adjacent to the hangar serves spectators and visiting pilots with excellent cuisine. At present the port boasts of four ships?two Warner Travel Airs, an Aero-Avian and one CH 300 Bellanca Monoplane...
...aircraft exhibition. It was the biggest, most important air event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...