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...four years with Curtiss engineers (TIME, June 30) a fault in the lubricating system prevented flight tests. Last week changes had been completed, but conditions were not yet right for outdoor flying. Impatient, youthful Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof at the end of its tether, settled lightly to the floor again...
...testflown last October, is again in its hangar being lengthened by the addition of a 75-ft. midsection...
...Curtiss Condor biplane, taxiing to its hangar at a Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...
Conservative Curtiss engineers would make no predictions, pending exhaustive flight tests but they believe it possible to fly the helicopter off a hangar floor at two feet of altitude, out through the door, then upward at 1,000 ft. per min., in any direction at 70 m. p. h.; also, to hover over one spot while the fuel lasts, descend with or without power no faster than the largest type parachute...
...Eckener left for Washington with Commander Hunsaker to spend several days in search of permanent hangar and airport sites between Baltimore and Richmond. Weather conditions would render useless any site north of Baltimore, he was convinced. At Lakehurst, preparations were being made to welcome the Graf on her proposed triangular trip from Germany to South America to the U. S. this...