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Shows 1Fast Kîse Thomas A. Morgan, president of Curtiss-Wright corporation, recently announced the receipt of export orders amounting.to $2,500,000 since January 1, a total equal to the ecn- tire export..l)usiniess during: 1932. when Curtiss-W*night exported more products than any other aviation .maniufacturing concern in,the world. One bun dred and one airplanies in- cluding fifty-four "Curtiss Hawks" powered by the new 700 HP Wright Cyclone engine, nine Curtiss "Falcon" two-seat .Observation ,biplanes, also pow<eréd by the nevw Cyclone.,îîîne Wbirlwind powered Cùrtiss-Wrigbt Training planes and four Cutiss-' Wright "Osprays" powered by a 420 HP Wright Whirlwind engine and .tbirty 700-HP Cyclone engines, constituted the Iai'ger part of the $2,5w,000 export orders received. Mr.- Morgan states that, great progress hbas~ been made during the past two years in selling planes, and engines to countries wbo in the l)ast have not purchased Amierican lI)Uilt equipment. The, complete. satisfac- tion of these foreign coutries with the performance of' the- planes ,bùilt in this country bas resultedîiiithis very rapid increase in foreign busi- ness . The entire 101 planes sold are repeat orders from countries who purchased Curtiss-Wright planes in 1931 and 1932. New Monoplanes in Holland t is interesting to note that at present the ;Fokker cornpany of 'Hol- land is building three new mono- planes, a twin-motored, a tri-motoned, and a four-motored plane, ail of whicb are powered by the new 700-HP Wright, Cyclone engines. These planes are being constructed for K. L. M. airlines wbo operate the longest airline in the world, be- tween AmsterMUm and Batavia, a distance exceedinig 9,000 miles. Cur- tiss-Wrigbt engines are also being used -on other European transport lines, including Avio Linee between Rome and Zurich. by Swissair. be- It Bégins to Lookc as if Goal Business Is Movng Ahcad Faster Than Print. 'ing Trade Evidence that two industries are now actually in motion was afforded throngs, at Curtiss airport last Sun- dýay wben two toy-size ca7s-ýttain ing,:a maximum velocity of 10 miles. per bour ."streaked" ar-ound the field in a race that simply ý.set the .ýcnowd, wild. Pilot :of, one car was Bill (,"Ma- jor") 'Lange of Wilmette, represent- ing the pinting industry; guiding tlie rival machine was Ed ("Captain") Meyers of Chicago, representing the coal busineéss.. \liethe mighty, one-cylinder en- gine of eacb car was palpitating be- fore the start. of the race, the, names of the, two drivers were announced througb a micropbone. Fuily Aware of Perils Realizing the s ,peed and danger1 in- volv'ed in this d'ust-raisitng event, Lange a'nd Meyers were each equipped with 'a parachute. Each car groaned beneath the weight of man and paraçbute-but crack! went theT gun, and the brave little vebicles' Iunged forward. Nose and nose thte, "auto-ettes" stuttered around th 1e oval; whenever one car would get behind, the traiding driver would thrust forth a mighty foot and shove bis car up even witb the leader. *AUl went well until the finish !Ine approached. Eaclb pilot vas' f0 make a parachute jumfp and theri tuck bis car under bis arm and scamiper across the finis.h line. But, alas, the para-~ chutes caught oiý tlhe cars, the drivers were unable to free thèmselve's, andi the race 'lad the conveûtional finish, each machine having four wbeels on the ground. Coàl Leader Vitorius The crowd. not .r.eal'izing anything had gone amliss, .cheered wild1y, as Ed 'Meyers steamed across the 'finish" line several ems ahead of the intrepid Bill Lange. flot burning Up the sicyroa<is) Tuesday of last weelc , Laux got a yen for St. Louis, winged his way there, returned at midnight Wed-nes- day, longed for janesvil1e and said "Giddap, Stinson !" Friday morning, returned from Janesville to dear old Curtiss Frîday noon, soared away to Newton, la., at 2:30 ýo'clock the saine afternooýn', roared into Curtiss Satur- day morning-and so to 'bed?ý Wayne King has been unable to quiet bis. restless sbul with his saxo- phone, so he lias gone, up into the, air about it... King sped to. Pal-Waukee airport Monday morn- ing of last week, cli mbed into lis plane and piloted i t to is. summer homet near Grteen Bay, WVis., returned T'uesday in time to test his saxo- phione in the Progress- city, flew away té bis Wisconsin retreat Wednesday rnorning and returned Thursday to resumne bis rhythms. Tom Sheffield, of Lake Forest is takinig flying inst.ruction from the Nvar ace, Capt. VincentC. Taylor of Sky Hiar- bor airpor.t . .. "Oh's" and "ah's" of admiration blended -with propellor whiirrs ,Nheii Ollie l)avis of Newý York City deèmQonstrated bis new two-passenger Fairchïil7d cabin plane at Curtiss and Pal-Waukee airports t . . Yes,'Freddie blas flown far, far away-this saine Fred ýI. Richards, former student at Curtiss, is now piloting a Sikorsky on"a' Pan-Amei- cati 'passenger line. . . Josephineý Patterson of Lake Forest, -with AI- bert' Sprague, acquired spmne more minutes in the air l)y flying in Miss Pattersoni's Laird plane to Inidianalpo- lis from Pal-Waukee airport Thurs- day of last week, returning. the samne day ... Pilot 'Siegfried wbo passed his transport test at Municiý pal airport Friday, flew bis tiny Aeronica from Cu'rtiss airport Sun- day to Cincinnati wbhere bie will bave tbe Aeronica crated and shipped to Buenos Aires . .. . Siegfried flues tbe Aeronica for relaxation.after his 'duties as pilot of a big plane on a Pan-Anerican route 0 . G. Hoover, civil instructor at Ellington feld, Texas, d'uring the Nvar. bias also been len ding a South Arnerican tang equipmnet t is ouc ca iun.s weather data on any portion of the UJnited States and Canada. In addition to the two weather muen at the hangar, the eight pilots and the twenty-four mnen of the ground crew for the two blimps., Puritan and Reliance, are . keeping busy during the summer. Eacb mtorning tbe blimps are ushered, fromn the hangar and sent on their plump and stately way, to A -Century of 'Prog.ress. grounds *where a passenger, s ight- seeing service is operated., Eacb evening, the blimps float back to Pal-Waukee wbere they are docked by 'the, ground crew and "put to, bed"l in the hangars for the night. Sky Harbor, Is Base for Two Advertising ,Planes Sky Harbor airport is the base for tvo .ships flown over.tbe spires oftbe 1,001)by tbeir respective' pilot-s Wayne Howard, fonmenly chief fligbt instructor for, CurtissMWright at Los Angeles', and Cecil Allen, who. flew the Pacific with Dýon -Moyle inî 1930. Each of these ships, flying one above the other, 'trails a, sign, advertisiig Goodricb tires. Cecil Allen -%as the, inventor of. these sigiis. 'Fam ous1 Gliding Expert Treaching New Course' W'ally Franklin announces th at several students are taking the Course which lie recently inauigurated ii soaring and gliding at Sky Harbor airport. Franklin, necognized as one, of the country's foremost experts' in gliding, achieved wide recog-nition in aviation circles' wben lie reinained aloft in a glider for eigbt and one- haîf bours. NYB1ORG, ANDERSON LEAP Ralph Nyboôrg. of Evanston and Newton Anderson of Chicago, ea.ch made an xiin paracbut'e lump at Curtiss airport Sunday, of Iast week. Parachute jum-ps feature the stiunt programs offered at Curtiss every Sunday afternoon.; Aig.stines Mais. Engin«s The' Argentine government,. in its plant at Cordoba this y'ear, stanted the maàufatéture of Wright Cyclone engincs tbrough a license agreement with the Wright Aeronautical corpo-1 ration., The first fifty Cyclones, arei American personel, the Turks. are 'jst e kat kyHaror.Cap. iM cpl arot'eryi Uy now building Curtiss Hawks antd cent C. Taylor, instructor .- Fledglings in their own. plant at Captain Taylor also instructs Harvey who keeps bis Stinson junior at Cur- Eskisehir. Meyers who miade bis first %solo fli'gbt tiss, made a. "there and return" trip . Such rapid growth in the export the sanie Tuesday . . . Another to Detroit Monday of last week field for American aeronautical pro- first-time soloist on Tuesday 'was . . Mellow Missouri was repre- ducts indicates thé great progress Mn. Crowell of Chicago, passing bis sented on the crisp north shore that is being made not only in the test under the direction of' Dwight Thursday. of last week when a Stin- technical field, 'but likewise in the' Morrow at Curtiss airport . son owned by the Ozark Air ays sales field of aviation. "Babe" Meggs of Highland Park, stopped at Curtiss airpont. I i