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...with the Varsity, about 18 men are planned to take the trip. Though no very definite line on the Yardlings can be had until they get out of doors, pitchers who appear up in the van at this time are Harold M. Curtiss, Jr., and Harold N. Edinberg...
John L. Allen; George Akerson; George B. Blake; Edmond L. Cherbonnier; Francis R. Connolly; Paul G. Counthan; Peter F. Cunningham; Harold M. Curtiss, Jr.; Bernard M. Dobrusin; Roscius I. Downs, Jr.; Harold Edinberg; Francis F. Foley; Richard W. Galbraith, Jr.; Anthony Galluccio; Robert T. Gannett, 2nd.; Austin L. George, Jr., and Benjamin C. Gifford...
...transcontinental airliners. Nevertheless it was the first East-West non-stop coast-to-coast flight by a woman. Laura Ingalls left the stage to become a flyer in the wake of the Lindbergh boom. She had been by turns a vaudeville actress, Spanish dancer, graduate nurse, amateur detective. At Curtiss Field her small, helpless appearance at first evoked laughter. Later she was told she would never make a flyer. Indomitable, she kept on, got a secretarial job at a flying school to pay for lessons, became the 15th U. S. woman to get a transport license. For her able...
...airplane refueling endurance record, a broken cylinder head forced them down after 123 hr. The second time, a storm balked them after 169 hr. On June 4 the two brothers, who operate a flying school at Meridian, went up for a third try in their Wright-powered Curtiss Robin monoplane Ole Miss...
Born in San Diego, Calif, of an old Castilian family, Bert Acosta was a professional automobile racer at 13. In 1910, aged 15, he learned to fly in a ship he built himself as a copy of a Curtiss "pusher." Year later he began working for Glenn Curtiss, went to Canada in 1914 to teach Royal Air Force students to fly. Afterward he taught U. S. Army pilots, became a captain in the Wartime Air Service, returned to Curtiss after the Armistice...