Word: glider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aviation tycoons, among them Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, dining with the National Gliders Association in Manhattan last fortnight, offered nearly $50,000 to promote the useful sport of gliding. They foresaw 1,000,000 glider pilots in 1935 who could easily learn to fly motored planes...
...Last week Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder and president of the National Glider Association and president of the Detroit Aircraft Corp., announced that his aviation corporation had bought Gliders, Inc., largest U. S. manufacturers of gliders. He proposed to sell gliders at cost...
...Buffalo, a group of eight young women last week organized a glider club...
...Glider Prize. The first U. S. person to glide ten hours in a motorless plane will get a $2,000 prize. Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...
...More Gliders. Against Glider, Inc., Detroit's motorless plane manufacturer, last week developed a competitor, American Motorless Aviation Corp. President is Colonial Airways' president, Major General John F. O'Ryan...