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...place had been in Canada, aware of the lusty thirsts of flying men, swarmed over the planes. From Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, tour official who had proudly led the flyers into his native state, they took six bottles of liquor and $30 in fines. From the cushion in George Haldeman's Bellanca Pacemaker they extracted a half-case of beer. In short order the agents collected a washtub full of liquor, while late arrivals, grasping the situation at sight, hurled bottles right & left before their planes could be searched. Among 18 flyers competing for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy...
...Wilmington, Del., last week from the test field for Bellanca planes, George Haldeman lifted his stock Bellanca Pacemaker, powered with a Wright Whirlwind 300 h. p. motor. He was in the air for 1 hr. 16 min. During that time he had hoisted his ship to a new commercial plane altitude record of 33,500 feet. The previous record was 25,700 feet...
Other famed ocean rescues: Harry G. Hawker and Commander Mackenzie- Grieve, picked up between Newfoundland and Scotland, May, 1919; Commander John Rodgers and crew, near the Hawaiian Islands, September, 1925 (see map, p. 12); Ruth Elder and George Haldeman, near the Azores, October, 1927; Commander Francesco de Pinedo and crew, between Newfoundland and the Azores...
...Bellanca sesquiplane which C. Sabelli was to fly to Rome last year. But her size and fame were no deterrents to six presumed thieves who last week audaciously attempted to take her from her hangar at Wilmington, Del. Bellanca guards forewarned by telephone frustrated the attempt and pleased George Haldeman, co-pilot of Ruth Elder's trans-Atlantic flight, now Bellanca's chief test pilot, who privately plans to fly the Roma whither publicity abounds...
Canada to Cuba. George W. Haldeman, who in 1927 flew with Ruth Elder from New York almost to Europe, last week took a Bellanca plane at Windsor, Ontario, and flew without stopping to Havana?1,404 miles in 12 hr., 56 min.?the first non-stop flight between Canada and Cuba...