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Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...
...Arthur Curtiss James...
...stuck as the perfect name for a hard-bitten pilot. It helped make him a glamorous figure in the swashbuckling period of U. S. aviation. It kept alive his fame even after he was withdrawn from the field two years ago and boosted into the executive councils of Curtiss-Wright Corp. as vice president in charge of public relations...
Neither fame nor flying ability is of prime concern to hard-headed bankers. Five months ago "Casey" Jones was eased out of Curtiss-Wright's executive offices in Manhattan to manage two Long Island fields. Last week he resigned, said he felt "entitled to a vacation" after 14 years with the company. There was talk that he would open a flying school in Newark, and that he is considering offers to act with Richard Barthelmess in a film of Transport Pilot 13, "Casey" Jones's biography on which he is collaborating with Adman Guy Fowler...
Following the War, during which he flew with the famed 96th French Pursuit Squadron and directed training at Issoudun, "Casey" became test pilot for Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. As head (and founder) of Curtiss Exhibitions Co. he flew in practically all available races from 1919 to 1926, cleaned up so much prize money with his clipped-wing Oriole that for a time his department alone showed profits in the struggling Curtiss organization. Oldsters recall one race, at Dayton in 1924, which "Casey" failed to win. As usual he loaded as little fuel as necessary into his ship. This time...