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...feel"' of the plane, basic requisite of flying, is usually imparted to beginners by sending them up in a dual-control plane with an instructor. Last week at Glenn Curtiss airport, N. Y. a new method was introduced, to give students the ''feel" by letting them "fly solo" before leaving the ground. Equipment used: i) a glider mounted to swing in the blast of a fan; 2) an almost wingless "kiwi" or taxiplane which scoots around the field but cannot rise and which has strong hoops in front to protect the tyro if he noses over; 3) an ordinary glider...
...Willow Grove, Pa., and in 1925 went to Spain to discuss the autogiro with de la Cierva. In 1928 he brought the first autogiro to the U. S. and with part of the fortune which he realized from sale of his profitable New York-Atlanta airmail route to the Curtiss-Keys group, he purchased the right to develop the autogiro in. this country. Thereafter he and the inventor worked silently and exceedingly hard-and practically solely with Pitcairn money-to bring the autogiro to a point of commercial feasibility. They formed Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co., now Autogiro Co. of America...
...Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y. last week a great crowd of aeronautical men watched what appeared to be a conventional Waco biplane as it came in for a landing. It did not slant down toward the ground and suddenly level off. It floated down slowly, steadily at the same angle, tail high in normal flying attitude. More remarkable, the pilot's white-gloved hands could be seen upraised above his head as the craft touched the ice-coated surface, bounced a few times and was brought to a stop by footbrakes. The plane had landed itself...
Married. Otelie E. ("Tilly") Losch, 27, Viennese danseuse (Wake Up and Dream); and Edward Francis Willis James, 23, British "retired diplomat," brother-in-law of Marshall Field III, cousin of Board Chairman Arthur Curtiss James of Western Pacific Railroad Co.; in Manhattan...
Play Boy, built by Lincoln Aircraft Co., somewhat resembles the Curtiss Junior in boatlike appearance and low clearance. Performance figures are much the same. Engine: Lincoln Rocket. Cost...