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...last week at Curtiss Airport, L. I. a group of men was observed stretching a huge, soiled piece of cloth between two poles alongside a trench. A stovepipe was rigged between the trench and a hole in the fabric. Someone touched a match to a pile of kindling in the trench. Soon the fabric began to bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above...
Exeter: stroke, McGuire; 7, Dresser; 6, Hondrie; 5, Curtiss; 4, Tufts; 3, Johnson; 2, Newman; bow, Hutchinson; coxswain, Sweeny...
...dregs at the foot of the bottle, the fire was embers, Dawn reached rosy fingers to snatch back reality. The Vagabond shook himself, gazed at his empty lair, stretched in preparation for a new day. At nine o'clock he will saunter spryly into Sever 22 to hear Mr. Curtiss discourse on "Motion in Polar Coordinates," for Roger Bacon, first of the moderns, said "Mathematics prepares the mind and elevates it to a sure knowledge of all things," for in numbers lies the only Truth...
...National Aeronautic Association. But Chicago preferred an arrangement announced last week. Century of Progress' President Rufus Cutler Dawes made known that Chicago will hold International Air Races Sept. 1-4. LT. S. and foreign pilots will vie for "rich cash prizes'' at Curtiss-Reynolds field, scene of the 1930 national meet...
Quiet enough to permit passengers to talk to one another in normal voices and to allow radio music to be heard, the new Condor will be put into service by Eastern Air Transport out of Newark to Miami this week. Eight others are under construction at Curtiss-Wright's St. Louis plant...