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...capital it was in Chicago last week for the ten-day period of the National Air Races. Airmen & aircraft from all parts of the land were congregated in the city proper and at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport, Glenview, 16 mi. northwest of the Loop...
...acrobatic "Olym-piad"; the revival of free-for-all speed racing in the Thompson Trophy Race. The latter event promised to resolve into a battle between Travelair Mystery S's, flown by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks and Lieut. Jimmy H. Doolittle, and the Marine Corps entry, a special Curtiss Hawk with Conqueror motor, piloted by Capt. Arthur H. Page, winner of the Curtiss Marine Trophy Race...
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...
...sirens on all the fire engine houses in St. Louis shrieked into a rain-streaked sky one morning last week by special order of Acting Mayor Neuman. A score of drenched employes of Curtiss-Robert-son Airplane Corp. paraded Lambert-St. Louis field, led by a small boy with a crude banner reading "Red and Obie did it again." Overhead the endurance-flying firm of "Red & Obie"-Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine-waved from their orange-&-yellow monoplane, which had just flown past the endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. set last month by the Hunter Broth...
...mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...