Word: bellancas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such excursions will not only be "nice" but also possible within four months, if one has faith in Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, designer of the monoplane, Columbia, which carried Pilot Chamberlin and Passenger Levine across the Atlantic (TIME, June...
...Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...
Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...
...dead. Pilot Basil Rowe, flying a Thomas Morse 54E plane with an Aero- marine motor, contradicted this extravagance by buzzing in a winner with an average speed of 102.9 miles an hour; Pilot W. L. Gilmore, in another Morse, was second; one of the 16 did not return. -a Bellanca plane, piloted by Clarence Chamberlain, carrying one Lawrence Buranelli, passenger. It had tipped a telephone wire with a right wing, come crashing down into the backyard of a deserted shanty. Passenger Buranelli, crushed under the unrecognizable grim huddle of the motor, was killed. Pilot Chamberlain was injured...