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Visitors will enter the low, narrow end of the museum after walking down a quarter-mile ramp. Up to that point, the museum's massiveness is masked by giant earthen embankments. Then, beginning with the Wright Brothers' flyer, visitors progress historically past World War I Jennys to more than 80 types of aircraft famed in military aviation. The winged exhibits, designed by Herb Rosenthal & Associates, sit on various levels more like discoveries than displays. The sparrowlike Spads of the Lafayette Escadrille will be shaded under Roche's giant hangar along with...
...about" was clearly said by the grandson of the man who said, "People can have the Model T in any color, so long as it's black." Only Henry Ford I meant it, while that daredevil Henry Ford II, 44, threw caution aside and took a $1,600 flyer in a Broadway musical, Sugar City, due in March. The auto heir has backed "two or three" other shows, none of which earned him a dime. But, as Granddad used to say, history is more or less bunk...
...Reno Airport instead; the dirt, they said, was unsafe. Oh yeah? growled Stead, whereupon he qualified his own Bearcat at 350 m.p.h. and threatened to take the $5,000 prize himself. That did it: the pilots rushed out to qualify in such a tearing hurry that one anxious flyer did not even bother to change out of his business suit, silk shirt...
...year's earnings of $33.6 million on $561 million in revenues were the most ever made by any airline. Gray has been in on practically all of this growth. A member of the first group of pilots hired by Pan Am in 1929, he was the first commercial flyer to cross the Atlantic, logged 15,000 hours before he settled behind a desk...
...marinas range from spartan to sybaritic. A sampling: ∙ BLAKELY ISLAND, a 7-sq.-mi. member of the San Juan Archipelago off the northwest corner of the state of Washington, was bought ten years ago by Pioneer Sports Flyer Floyd Johnson, who canvassed the west coast from Mexico to Canada to find an island he could turn into a flyer's private paradise. Johnson has left most of Blakely wild, has put a 2,400-ft. lighted landing strip (planted in grass) in one corner and surrounded it with lots for no more than 200 families, plus a comfortable...