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Major Reuben Hollis Fleet, president of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. (Buffalo, N. Y.) announced last week that construction would soon be started on a seaplane capable of carrying 100 persons across the Atlantic. Preliminary plans call for 62 staterooms, noiseproof walls, a 200-ft. promenade, a power plant of 16 Curtiss Conqueror 600-h. p. motors. Consolidated at present makes the largest U. S. riving boats, the 22 and 30-passenger Commodores, 10 of which are in regular service on N. Y. R. B. A.'s routes in South America...
Again, Hawks. Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks in New York one morning last week had, for something to talk about, an engagement to play golf with his father in Los Angeles at 4 p.m. that afternoon. He left Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, L. I. at 6 a.m. (Eastern daylight-saving time). Grinning, he greeted his father at Los Angeles Municipal Airport at 4:50:43 p.m. (Pacific standard time), too weary for golf but with a new east-west transcontinental record. It was the first such flight ever made in full daylight. The plane was the Travel Air Mystery...
Indoor Hop. When Inventor Maitland Barkelew Bleecker brought forth the helicopter on which he had been working for four years with Curtiss engineers (TIME, June 30) a fault in the lubricating system prevented flight tests. Last week changes had been completed, but conditions were not yet right for outdoor flying. Impatient, youthful Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof...
Last week in Nassau County, N. Y. the district attorney threatened to proceed against Curtiss-Wright Airport and Roosevelt Field as public nuisances because residents complained that planes droning over their rooftops at all hours of the night made sleep impossible. The matter was settled by the field managers agreeing to a curfew of 11 p. m. in summer, 10 p. m. in other seasons. Night flying, they explained, is a Department of Commerce requisite for student flyers in qualifying for advanced ratings...
...greater import to airport operators is the decision in Swetland v. Ohio Air Terminals (Curtiss-Wright subsidiary) from which defendants were last week preparing an appeal. The Swetlands (Frederick and Raymond), who for 25 years have occupied a country estate near Richmond Heights, Ohio, asked an injunction against the airport, which was constructed across the road from them last year. Judge George P. Hahn upheld the right of the airport to operate, but enjoined its planes from flying lower than 500 ft. over the Swetland's property even in taking off or landing...