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Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...
...test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...
...last job for Great Lakes was testing a new "torpedo type" plane designed for the Navy. Month ago he dived the wings off it over Ohio, jumped 8,000 ft. with his parachute. Last fortnight he went to work for Grumman at Farmingdale, still wearing bandages from the head injuries he received in bailing out. Early one morning he took the stubby X-737 up 25,000 ft., dived and stunted it for six hours while hundreds of spectators alternately cheered and held their breath. When he came down after the last dive he told observers he "wasn...
...ingenuity, the little plane failed to come out of the spin, plunged instead into a net. So impressive was the demonstration, however, that the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics decided to use the tunnel to determine spin characteristics of its new Grumman Fighter, before permitting that risky ship to be flown by any more test pilots (see above...
...last week he went out to the Grumman factory at Farmingdale, L. I., climbed into the stubby little biplane, put it through a series of terminal velocity tests. Because it was his last testing job, and because it was his son's second birthday, his heart was high. His sister, whom he had not seen in years, was on the ground watching his farewell to test-flying...