Word: bellancas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Mr. Bellanca announced that he had contracted to build five triple-motored planes for passenger service between New York and Chicago. The trip will be made in seven and a half hours. The fare (one way) will be in the neighborhood of $60-50% greater than railroad fare. Each plane will carry twelve passengers, a pilot-navigator and a steward who will serve meals, operate the radio and be emergency pilot. The cost of each plane, equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, will be $28,500. The company will be financed by A. R. Martine of the Bankers...
Three days after the Bellanca-Martine announcement, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh emerged from conferences in Washington to speak five sentences concerning "the establishment at an early date of a passenger-carrying air transport line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as William B. Mayo, chief of the aircraft division of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry Knight, Harold M. Bixby and William B. Robertson, the St. Louis backers of Colonel Lindbergh's transatlantic flight; Howard E. Coffin and Paul Henderson of the National Air Transport Inc. (air mail operators); Casey Jones...
Thus, a competition to carry the U. S. public in the air looms between the backers of a 25-year-old Nordic, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who is everybody's hero, and the backers of a 41-year-old Latin, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, who is as obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane...
Years ago, in the cliff-perched village of Sciacca on the island of Sicily, the boy Bellanca watched ships cut the sea and kites cut the air. There was a similarity, he thought. He made his kite fly horizontally, like a glider. His imagination roamed-"a little fan in front, and I could fancy it there flying by itself...
Then Giuseppe Mario Bellanca began to put sticks and canvas together. His first plane, a compromise in design between his own ideas and those of his friends who furnished the money, crashed at the start of its maiden voyage. He was convinced that the early pusher type of plane with propeller in the rear was wrong. His next plane, which he hoped would conquer the English channel, was designed with the propeller in front, No one seemed anxious to purchase a motor for him, so he stayed on the ground-again disappointed-while Louis Blériot crossed the English...