Word: bellancas
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...affectionate excitement for Charles Augustus Lindbergh a month before, Paris last week settled down to a steady schedule of festive welcome for its second detachment of transatlantic air guests-Heroes Byrd, Acosta, Noville, Balchen, Chamberlin and Levine. The last two arrived from Berlin via Austria and Czechoslovakia in their Bellanca ship, Columbia. The first four arrived hollow-eyed and shaken after their fog-ridden cruise, anxious night and wet landing in the America. In Paris they had difficulty mixing sleep with hospitality and with their natural inclinations to make the most of a great moment...
...commercial pilot, holder of many records, announced that he and a comrade were ready to fly a Farman (French make) biplane across the Atlantic and back. But Charles A. Levine of Manhattan was in Paris, hunting everywhere for someone to pilot him back to the U. S. in the Bellanca ship, Columbia, that flew from New York to Berlin...
...Bellanca once said: "I thought that God put the birds in the air. But suddenly I realized that they flew because they fulfilled the conditions of flying...
When the heavens fill with commerce, people will be thankful; partly because Mr. Bellanca was so wise in that garage in Omaha...
...Shortly after the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, of which Student Bellanca had no knowledge...