Word: bellancas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harlem," who in 1924 cracked up in Flushing Bay en route to Liberia, announced new plans. On Sept. 15, said the Colonel, he will take off from Floyd Bennett Field on a 7,500-mi. non-stop flight to Aden, Arabia. He secured for the flight a Diesel-powered Bellanca, named it Patience...
...were determined to find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca which Pangborn & Herndon flew around the world. Off to Alaska went the rescue party, headed by Pilots William Alexander & Fred Fetterman. Ther. Mattern turned up in Siberia. A U. S. plane could not fly there without Soviet permission, nor could a Russian plane take Mattern to Nome without U. S. permission...
...January he went to the U. S. with an idea for an aerial "tramp" freight service around the world in the southern hemisphere. Last week he popped up in Manhattan where he had been going under the name of "Mr. Smith." He had a new plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia," breaking by 1,000 mi. the 5,126 mi. non-stop distance record held by Great Britain. Shrewdly, he timed his flight to steal some of the thunder of Italo Balbo...
...cockpit of the Bellanca, named Santa Lucia, he rigged an overhead water tank, a siren and a time clock. When the General feels drowsy he will set his controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...
...capital lately went into Granville Bros, (new name: Granville Aircraft Corp.). Alfred D. Chandler, longtime backer of Giuseppe Bellanca who quit him following a quarrel last year, turned to Granville. With Mr. Chandler went former Bellanca Vice President William B. Hurlburt...