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...naturalized U. S. citizen of 49, dark-eyed Enea Bossi was a pioneer pilot in Italy, taught famed Giuseppe Bellanca how to fly. Later he designed many successful ships, fought in the War, where he knew Corporal Benito Mussolini fairly well. Said Enea Bossi last week: "He's a big fella now. I've only seen him twice since he got to be a big fella...
...Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin monoplanes. Gone forever are goggles and helmet...
...same week he bought his son's present, Broker Meehan received a present from the Securities & Exchange Commission in the form of a summons to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. stock exchanges for alleged manipulation of Bellanca Aircraft stock. Hotly denying that he had been jiggling Bellanca or any other stock, Broker Meehan prepared to defend himself...
...take this opportunity to call your attention to the fact that the Bellanca low-wing monoplane "The Dorothy" used by Captain Mollison was not purchased with the idea in mind" of entering it in the Johannesburg Air Race. The deposit on the aircraft was received on Sept. 10 and Captain Mollison arrived in the U. S. the latter part of September, first coming to our factory on the 28th. The Johannesburg Race started at dawn from London on Sept. 29. The delivery date given Captain Mollison when placing the order was October 15; our pilot tested the machine...
Assistant Secretary Bellanca Aircraft Corp...