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Reason for Jim's flight was to "ferry" to England a special racer in which he hoped to enter the Johannesburg Air Race. A low-wing Bellanca with a Wasp Jr. engine, the plane was built as Colonel James Fitzmaurice's entry in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race to Australia, was disqualified on technicalities. Changes made for Captain Mollison delayed his departure from the U. S. until after the Johannesburg Race came to its sorry conclusion. He decided to fly across anyway to see if he could beat the time of the Johannesburg Race's winner...
Early last summer the Baroness decided to cap these exploits by flying the North Atlantic. In July she arrived in Manhattan with a dour, 31-year-old Swedish pilot named Kurt Bjorkvall and the backing of the Stockholm Tidningen-Dagblad. Acquiring an old Bellanca high-wing monoplane with one motor, they announced they would fly from Floyd Bennett Field to Stockholm...
...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
Halcyon days of the U. S. sport of gliding were in 1929. Airplane tycoons like Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, spent big money to promote it because expert glider pilots can easily learn to fly motored planes. Detroit Aircraft Corp. purchased Gliders, Inc., biggest U. S. glider manufacturer, planned to sell gliders at cost. Glider clubs began to be organized. Conservative enthusiasts predicted 1,000,000 glider pilots...
None of this was known by the firm's floor member, Jerome T. Meighan. who is not to be confused with Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan, now being questioned by the Securities & Exchange Commission for alleged manipulation of stock in Bellanca Aircraft. Apparently responsible for the McCaffray finagling was Managing Partner William H. Hosford, who resigned last month. As soon as Floor Member Meighan learned about his partner's activities, he reported them to Stock Exchange authorities...