Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since last winter Curtiss Flying Service, as sales agents for Curtiss, Curtiss-Robertson, Cessna, Ireland, Command-aire and Sikorsky planes, has been advertising with confident emphasis...
Endurance Attempts. At Los Angeles, Leo Nomis and Maurice Morrison in a Cessna (TIME, July 8) had their motor fail, landed with a crash after 42 hr. 5 min. in the air. Another Los Angeles plane, the Buhl Angeleno, last week started up for the endurance record. Flyers were Loren W. Mendell, R. B. Reinhart...
...TIME, June 3). To surpass these records four planes were flying last week. At Cleveland R. L. Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb took up the Stinson-Detroiter Miss Cleveland. As the new week began they were still flying. Also flying were Leo Norm's and Maurice Morrison in another Cessna at Los Angeles. At Minneapolis Thorwald Johnson and Owen Haughland kept the Cessna Miss Minneapolis up for 150 hrs., when a broken valve forced them down. At Roosevelt Field, L. I., Viola Gentry, flying cashier, and Jack Ashcraft, went up in the Cabinair biplane The Answer, after only one practice...
...event of Canada's year, surpassing in extent and influence Montreal's exhibition, earlier in May. More than 70 planes showed at Winnipeg. Many competed in races and stunts. They carried hundreds of passengers. Makes included: de Havilland Moth, Avro Avian, Huff Daland, Lockheed Vega, American Eagle, Fokker, Junkers, Cessna, Fairchild, Ford, Waco, Hamilton, Douglas, Laird, Ryan, Travel Air, Monocoupe, Curtiss Robin...
Nome-Long Island. Parker Dresser Cramer (who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Rockford, 111., his home town, to Stockholm, Sweden, but was forced down in Greenland) last week took off from Nome, Alaska, in a light Cessna cabin monoplane with a 110 h. p. Warner-Scarab motor. In seven days, with stops along a route which led over Alaska, Canada, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, he put his ship down on Long Island, N. Y. Flying time...