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...murky, blowy morning, last week, half a hundred people huddled quietly at the Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I. Some were Colombian civilians, others U. S. aviators. They were waiting for a new Curtiss Falcon seaplane to be drawn out of her hangar and for the arrival of the pilot. He came, a small, slender young man. The aviators hailed him as "Benny." They knew him as the gas boy who filled their tanks at Curtiss Flying Field while he learned flying; the civilians respectfully called him Lt. Benjamin Mendez, of the Colombian Air Service. The seaplane...
Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Garden City, N. Y. / Hawk, Falcon, Robin / Commercial, sport, military / . . . . . . . .$4,000 up / Pioneers;War service; research, manufacture (motors of planes) sales, service...
...Fraternity League at the present time stands as follows: Sigma Alpha Mu, 12; Trident Club, 11: Falcon Club, 8; Kappa Sigma, 6; Alpha Sigma Phi, 4; Phi Epsilon Pi, 4; Tau Epsilon Phi, 4; Tau Delta...
Last week the opening of the Newark Municipal airport, the purchase by the National Air Transport Inc. of eight new Curtiss Falcon biplanes, the installation by the government of a lighted airway between Salt Lake City and San Francisco made possible in the near future a coast to coast 24-hour air mail service. Last week also saw the inauguration of a direct international airmail line, linking New York, Montreal and Mexico City...
...significance of the tragedy is that Merrill and Ronne were well-seasoned pilots and that Lindbergh's Falcon was one of the most efficient of modern planes...