Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 18 Oct 1934, p. 26

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A..ILMaTTAF irpOcinr1 1~ Wi AVIATION i p Just another reasonyou should visit Stevens' Lower Price Room This bar dress of silk crepe cornes in aflrac- fiv. colors. Blouse of1 white laffeta with gold rn.lallic thread design.. Sizes 12-20. See Ont- Advertisement on Page 39 Edgar A. SteveUis9lae E VAÀN STO0N NorthShiore Pilots Go. to Milwaukee Air Show Several pilots well known around the north shore airports went to Mil- waukee last Sunday to take part in the air show at Curtiss airport in the Wisconsin city. Dick Granere, wbo entertained. crowds with his crazy fiying acts at the Chicago Carnival of the Air, held two weeks ago at Chicago's Curtiss airport, was one of the pilots who took part in the Mil- waukee show. Another participant was Charles Abel, former. holder of the world's glider looping record. ,Hamilton Kunath' piloted the plane which towed Abel's glider.11 Sky Harbor'Manager Is Back from Week's Trip Duane Howard, manager of Sky Harbor airport, returned last Friday from a week's trip as pilot for E. J. Johnson, buyer for Sears, Roebuck and company. Jobnson rec ently bought a new Stinson. On their trip he and Howard visited Kansas City, St. Louis, Nashville, Knoxville and Indianapolis. Johnson keeps his ship at the Curtiss airport hangar. He uses it principally for business pur- poses. Air Corporation Head IFlics to Wayne, Mich. H. S. Darr, president of the Chi- cago Aviation corporation, operators of Curtiss airport and Stinson distri- butors in the Chicago area, fiew to the Stinson factory at Wayne, Mich., las-t Thursday on business. The fol- lowing day Dan Peterkin fiew another Curtiss airport Stinson to the factory at Wayne to take delivery on bis new Stinson Reliant.t D. of C. Inspector Has New Kinner Monoplane Department of Commerce Inspec- tor C. F. de La Seaux arrived at Cur- tiss field last Tbursday in a new Kin- ner coupe, low wing cabin monoplane. to give examinations to a number of students. from neighboring airports wbo were going up for pilots' license. The Department *of Commerce ship resembles the new Boeing pursuit plane. Dr. Ward E. Potter Is Back from Mai ne Trip Dr. Ward E. Potter of Oak Park returned last week with Mrs. Potter from a month's vacation in Maine.1 Dr. Potter keeps his Stinson plane at1 Curtiss airport, and he made the.tnip ; to New England in the -ship. While i in Maine the physician, and bis wife 1 made. short trips to various points, in« New England. > SKY HARBOR STUDENTS K.« C. Carlson and Jerry Foss are two new fiying students at Sky Har- bon airport. Both are working for amateur licenses. They are taking their, instruction from, Duane How-- ard, manager of the airport. Buy Commandaire; Keep S 1It at Curtiss Airport Gordon Cumberland of Minmette and Nels Sondergard of Evanston re- cently purchased an Axelson Col-. mandaire which they are keeping at the Curtiss airport hangar. Cumber- land and Sondergard formereiy owned an Ox-Swallow which Sonder2ý gard cracked up while practicing spins near Pal-Waukee airport. The Swallow went into a fiat spin at an altitude of 5,000 feet. Sondergard tried to bring the -plane out of the spin but was unsuccessful and when the ship bad dropped to 2,000 feet the pilot made use of bis parachute. W. W. Shaw, Stinson Owner., Has New Pil ot Waldon W. Shaw, wbo' recently purcbased a new Stinson Reliant whicb he keeps at the Curtiss airport hangar, bas employed "Mac" Mc- Donough as bis pilot to take tbe place of Jim Roth, wvbo died a f ew %veeks ago. McDonougb learned to fly at Curtiss field in 1929. I)wigbit Mor- row, veteran instructor at the airport, taugbt bim to fiy. Since tben \-c- Donougb bas been a co-pilot with United Air lines. Farewell Party Given for George "Cy" Gates Members of the Curtiss airport staff gave a farewell party last Thurs- day nigbt for George "Cy" Gates, who bhas returned to Curtiss-Stein- berg airport at East St. Louis. Gates assisted Kennetb Hunter, pilot of the refueling sbip, on the, recent unsuc- cessful attempts of the two Texas girls, jean LaRene and Mary Owens. to set a neW Womnen's endurance fiight record. Bellanca's Wasp Motor Repaired at Curtiss The Wasp motor of the General Housebold Utilities corporation's Beilanca, whicb is kept in the Curtiss airport hangar, bas undergone an overbauling in the Curtiss shop. Hubert B. Griggs is pilot of the ship. Tbe Bellanca is used occasionally for business trips to Gieneral 1-ousehold Utilities branches in other sections of the country. Goes to Detroit to Do Sky Writing for Ford Roy Hunt, one of the pil ots who took part in the Chicago Carnival of the Air at Curtiss airport two weeks ago, left for Detroit last week. Hunt, it is reported, bas a contract with the Ford Motor. company to do some, aerial advertising. He is a sky writ- ing expert. PLANE MOTOR, REPAIRED A j6-9 six-place Travelair owned by the' Heart-o'-Lakes airways at Lake Delavan, Wis., left Cutrtiss air- port last week after the pilot, Wil- liam Bauer, had stopped there to have sQme work done on the motor. STOPS FOR CAS, OIL CHARTER TRIP A six-place J-5 Stinson froin Grand Herman Anderson, vice-president Rapids, Mich., stopped at Curtiss air- of the Chicago Aviation corporation, port iast Thursday morning for gas operators of Curtiss airport, left last and oil. The plane was en route Friday morning in a Stinson on a from Grand Rapids to Rochester, charter to Bloomington, Ind., and 'Minn. Knoxville, Tenn. October 18. 1934 r WILMETTE LIPE 095 ý$12

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