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...including $20,000 paid for a 1914 Maurice Farman Pusher biplane and $20,000 for the Fokker D-VII, both slated for exhibition in a future air museum in New Jersey. But such, at least, was not the case with one beat-up, prop-less oldtimer, listed as the "Travelair Mystery Ship." "Mystery ship, hell!" snorted Oldtime Aviatrix Florence Lowe ("Pancho") Barnes. "I bought this ship in 1930 and flew it to two women's world speed records." When she made the winning bid of $4,300 for her old plane, which had been in Mantz's collection...
...Still a first lieutenant in the peacetime Army, Doolittle resigned in 1930 and went to work for Shell Oil Co. In St. Louis he took off in a new Travelair racer, lost an aileron while he was testing the ship only 100 feet above the airport. Doolittle wangled the ailing plane to 300 feet and dropped out. His parachute broke his fall when he was ten feet off the ground. Then he walked around in circles, staring intently at the ground. "Looking for my rip cord," he explained. His elder son, Jimmy Jr., then ten years old, pointed...
...young men climbed into the open cockpit of a Travelair biplane one day last week at Oakland Municipal Airport. After a minute or so the propeller began to turn. The plane started down the runway, gathered speed, soared into the air, its propeller beating a loud tattoo but without any noise of engine exhaust. After circling the airport at 1,000 ft. for about 15 minutes the plane glided to a landing and out jumped the two young men, grinning broadly. Thus unpretentiously, aeronautic history was made. For the first time, a steam-powered airplane had flown...
After a stormy trip from Wichita, Kansas, the new airplane bought recently by the Flying Club arrived on Saturday, at the flying field of the Eastcoast Aircraft Company. The plane is a Travelair trainer, and is powered by a 90 horsepower Curtis Wright Gypsy motor...
...Travelair Trainer plane, recently purchased by the Flying Club, has been held up in Cleveland by snow storms, but is expected either today or tomorrow. It is being flown cast by two members of the club, and will be the first of its kind to reach Boston...