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...government of Brazil has a perfect right to buy munitions in this country," announced Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week. When Brazil's government promptly ordered ten used Curtiss-Wright planes, the U. S. War Department consented to provide, for $97.74, certain "brackets" needed to adapt the ten planes for use as bombers...
...accordance with its policy of expansion the Harvard Flying Club announced last night that it has placed an order for a Curtiss Robin, a cabin monoplane powered by a 170 horsepower Curtiss Wright motor, and that the ship will be flown on from St. Louis next week by two club pilots. The plane is to be used primarily for cross-country flying. To supplement this ship the Club will also operate a Gypsy Moth for the purpose of training those members who have not as yet received their private licenses...
Publicist Jones. Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, great trainer of flyers and one of the best-liked men in U. S. aviation, last week was made a vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and put in charge of all the concern's public relations. A sort of promotion for him, it required his removal as president of Curtiss-Wright Flying Service. Other Curtiss-Wright personnel changes last week: Major E. H. Brainard became C. W. Flying Service president; William F. Carey turned his presidency of C.W. Airports Corp. over to Charles W. Loos and returned to his railroading; Bruce Gardner Leighton...
...students at flying schools of Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest...
...tour. Pilot Livingston's score was 55,628 points. Honors in the class for single or dual engined cabin planes went to George Haldeman, whose Bellanca Pacemaker, after an early forced landing in Canada, fought its way up to fifth place ahead of the Curtiss Kingbird. Flying across Kansas, Pilot Haldeman tried the cross-country tactics of Lindbergh and Hawks, climbed above 15,000 ft., there found a strong west wind to whisk him into Wichita ahead of his rival. Most telling test of the week occurred between Wyoming and Colorado, when the heavily loaded ships had to take...