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After a year's study (financed by $12,000 from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics) the National Aeronautic Association last week was able to present concrete plans for private flying clubs. Such clubs exist in England and Canada, where the Governments subsidize them as an aspect of national defense (TIME, June 3). In the U. S., club flying, like commercial aviation, must depend on private finances, although the Government gave commercial aviation backbone by means of mail contracts and Government officials are now initiating plans for the clubs...
This work has been so successful that it has been, recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation, and Kinogram has taken cinema pictures of classroom work in aeronautics at this school and displayed them all over the country. Many schools are beginning to follow this lead in every state...
...years ago last Monday, Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew from New York for Paris. The flight made him a Hero (with the aid of the late great Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick). It made the U. S. air-minded (through the astuteness of Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune...
...Guggenheim Fund safe aircraft competition will be derided next October. A dozen airplane manufacturers are enlisted in it already. U. S. entrants are Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall Inc. of Buffalo, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, and Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. If they do not win the $100,000 first prize, they may get one of five $10,000 "safety" prizes...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh opened his mouth last week in the Manhattan offices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, to explain to reporters the plans of the Transcontinental Air Transport Co. of which he is "technical adviser." As he (lid so, something escaped about his outlook on his own future. Asked about an age limit for pilots, he replied: "I can't recognize that there is any limit. I will continue flying until I am no more able to handle a machine...