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After giving a year of successful service to the members of the Harvard Flying Club and their guests, the Club Travel Air plane has been turned in for a new and later model equipped with a Curtiss OXX 6 motor...
Lieut. Joseph C. Soper, 25, U. S. Army pursuit pilot, was killed before the eyes of 15,000 when his Curtiss plane dived into Lake Erie during an exhibition at Camp Perry, Ohio...
Travelairs, Wacos, Cessnas, Moths, Thunderbirds, Lockheeds, Fairchilds, Stinsons, Challengers, Bellancas and a dozen other makes of planes set out last week from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, to fly to Los Angeles in the greatest transcontinental air derby ever staged. The power was furnished by Wright Whirlwind, Curtiss O X5, Warner Scarab, Pratt & Whitney, Wasp and many another motor. The pilots were stimulated by prizes totalling $57,500. In three classes, 62 planes hopped off. Stops for the night were made at Columbus, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Fort Worth, Tex., El Paso, Tex., Yuma, Ariz...
Flying was the business of Mazel M. ("Merry") Merrill, director of the Curtiss Flying Service, and Edwin M. Ronne, manager of the Buffalo Airport. On their engagement pad, last week, was the item: "Take Lindbergh's orange-colored Falcon from Buffalo to Curtiss Field, Long Island." It was, ostensibly, a simple and pleasant item in their business. But they were killed while performing it. A fog, a thickly-wooded hillside near Milford, Pa., a crash into the treetops, a completely demolished Falcon and two burned bodies told the story, crudely...
...search to discover these facts kept 48 planes busy for two days. The keen eyes of Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, president of the Curtiss Flying Service, were the first to spot the wreckage-an ugly hole in the dark green woods below...