Word: bellancas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buxom, blonde, Nordic Fraulein Rasche came to the U. S. to exhibit her able stunt flying, to fly back across the Atlantic. For many weeks, she had been haunting the flying fields, quarreling with her unnamed backers, posing for photographs. A green and red Bellanca was ready for her trans-Atlantic hop, yet not available until additional safety devices should be installed. Fraulein Rasche fretted, pouted for the press...
...James A. Stillman appeared as the answer to her troubles. She bought her another Bellanca, painted a tender, feminine sky-blue. She bravely went up with her protege and returned to write a powerful piece for the New York American (Hearst). It began...
...rich & ardent young assistant treasurer of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. at Wilmington, Del., in April became engaged to Margaret Wilson Lewis at San Antonio, Texas. Separating them are 1,600 air miles. So last week Mr. du Pont had delivered to him a $12,000 Bellanca plane, wherewith to fly to his sweetheart each weekend...
...ship, sat in the becurtained and be-flowered parlor of the Fokker Super-universal, peeked into the baggageroom and the lavatory boasted by the Loening Amphibian. Army and Navy officers inspected the two Corsairs done in navy blue and silver by Chance Vought. Mail pilots peeked at the streamlined Bellanca, made for speed flying. Collegians assembled about the first plane built with a rumble seat...
Others recognized Bellanca's merit. Col. Chamberlin reports that Lindbergh tried to buy the Columbia from Mr. Levine and the Wright Company, which supplied the motor. Both refused to sell, satisfied that his attempt to fly to Paris alone and in a land machine was "suicide...