Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Jun 1933, p. 22

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Io the gull's way and the' whaWes way, uhere the wnd's like a wheitd Ail you lassies who are victlms, of safyr corne in and deck your- self oui . in our cute beachw.ar - orin- stance: *new teeni passenger Uurtiss-Wright Condor transport bipianes, amount- ing to $1,250,000. Nine of the twent3 Condors have been deiivered and are now being operated by American Air- ways.and Eastern Air Transport. American Airways are flying these new Condors on their Chicago, De- troit, Buffalo, and New. York run, and Eastern Air Transport. on their lin es betweenNew York and Miami. The new>Condor, which carres if- teen1 pass engers, two pilots,, and '650 poqunds of mail, baggaige, and express has a top spered of l75 miles p'er hour, and a. cru isi ng speed1 of .150 miles per hour, .using two nine- cylinder 700 _horse-power Wright Cyclone F-I engines. TFhis giant airpiane, whicb bas a wing spant of 82 feet, has been, built to offer the greatest of comfort to the flyingý public, according to Mn. Mon- gan. A :modem' ventilating system causes a complete change of air eveny three minutes. The chairs are ad- justable so that they cati bc placed ini a reclining position. Ash trays are provided at eveny seat for the con- venience of passengens. Card tables are provided for those who des ire' to play cards or write letters. Individual lights whidi have directed rays M'ake it possible for a passenger to read at niglit without distunbi'ng other passengens who may wish to sleep (nt addition, full lavatony facilities are provided. Recuperating After Ship i acks Up" in Michigan, tNoble Cain, NBC radio antjst, is' necupenating fromn injuries received when bis plane, a Ctutiss Robin.! "cracked Up" at Hastings, Micît., two' weeks ago. Cain, whose ship recent- ly had been -refinishied at the Sky Harbor airpont. shop, flew to Mich- igan to visit relatives.. He was pnac- ticing landings wh 1en his plane struck a tree. He was thnown from the ship and one of his legs was broken. The wreckage of the planie was bnought back to Sky Harbor by truck. e.Two Goodyear blimps, the Puritan ýt and the Reliance, bave been carrying -f rom 2,50. to 300 passengers a day at A rCentury of Progress. exposition~ on cdays that they have been able to *operate, acc ording to J. A. Boettnerk wbo is- director of Ôperations'for* the Goodyear company's'Chicago base. *Tbe* tw blimp s, are kept in a dock àt1 Pal,-Waukee airport, on Milwau- keé avenue south of, Wheeling. The Reliance bias been. bere two weeks, comring from, Akron, Obio, and the YPuritan ar-rived earli*er. Botb sbips were in Miami, Fia., during the win- ter- Oniy one of, the blimps, the Puri.- tan, was in Chicago for tbe àummer Iast year. The dock at Pal-Wauikee originaiiy was buiît to accommodate. only the one ship. This year, on ac- count of-the fair, it was decided to send another blimp to Chicago, and. the dock was enlarged. Persons taking rides in. the Reli- ance oir the Puritan from A'Centùry of Progress are fiown over the fair grounds and the loop. On several days since the opening of the fair the blimps have bee n un- able to leave the dock at Pal-Wau- kee because of wind or other weather conditions,. There are seven pilots who handie the controis of the two blimps at dif- ferent tinies. The entire crew, in- clud'ig the ground workers, numbers about thirty. The ground crew is taken back and forth between Pal- \Vaukee and the fair grounds ini Goodyear trucks. Buys an Amphibian From Watch Company Officiai Lloyd Laflin of Lake Fonest, -Elgin Watch comPany official, has soid his Loening amph-ibian, whiich he keptat. Pal-Waukee ainport, to J. L. Young- husband of.Chicago. Mr. Younig- huüsbanàd also stores the plane at Pal- Waukee. He has used it for business trips to St. Paul and to Tnoy, Ohio, recentiy. He also flies to the World's fair grounds oçcasionally. tCh RE-COVER FUSELAGE PLAN DANCE AT SKY HARBORl The fuselage of a plane belonging A gnoup of bigh scbool students is to Ray Casson is being covened at the planning to hoid a formai dance at Sky Hfarbor sbop. The plane is a the Sky Harbor airport clubhouse Curtiss Robin. Fniday nigbt of this week. d ti ini of ha tii *ni' fo kt i wq

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