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...cheaper, non-automatic direction finder for use in private planes. In 1939, Lear Avia lost $15,000 on a $222,000 volume. Said Lear then: "I'd give my life for $55,000." Just out of a Miami hospital (result of a crackup in his new Cessna), he values his life more now. Last week he estimated Lear Avia's 1940 earnings: in excess of $100,000 on sales of $968,000. And sales are no longer a problem. His $5,000,000 backlog includes South American, Norwegian and Canadian orders. To help fill them Lear...
...cancelled the Sunday program. Before a capacity crowd next day Johnny Livingston, credited with winning more races than any other living pilot, added $2.250 to his two-year total of $56.000 by nosing out Art Davis, another crack racer, for the Baby Ruth Trophy. He whipped his flaming yellow Cessna around the 35-mile course at 183.7 m.p.h...
Fattest prize of the meet, the Col. E. H. R. Green "$6,500 trophy" plus $300 cash for planes of 125 h. p. or less, was won by Roy Liggett of Wichita. In a tiny red Cessna with clipped wings and retractable landing gear he easily led the field around the triangular course at 194 m.p.h. The Curtiss Trophy, for planes of 500 to 800 cu. in. piston displacement, went also to a Cessna flown by Alton B. Sherman of Hyannis, Mass...
...lost over the mountains of Kentucky and failed to find Middlesboro. Later Russell had to fly back from Knoxville, Tenn., and touch at Middlesboro to escape heavy penalties. Sensation of the meet was the youngster Eddie Schneider, 19, who fell into last place by a forced landing of his Cessna and a three-day delay in Kentucky, then fought his way back to finish third, ahead of all other light planes...
Most colorful civilian race was that won by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss-Wright flying service. Veteran of a hundred races in his barn- storming days, this was his first active participation in a national event in four years. President Jones flew a Cessna, showed by his gains at each pylon that his cunning is far from lost...