Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Aug 1935, p. 16

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recIuru UL lte ir trans~porti IIuUbLI jThe~ Soaring and àliding Club of for a comparable .period, American -Chicago.hinc., located at Sky Harbor Airlines carried 19,498 passengers on airport, now bas a menibership of 40 its nation-wide system during the accrd. i o AI Werlencitese-mnth of July, C.. R. Smith, president reay. -es fteclub, besides of the company, announced. this, week. Mr. Werle, are Henry Eckstein, sales manaer f te Alas rewng om- In addition to being the greatest *pany, president;,Joseph P. Stein-- number of passengers ever carried. by Shauser, vice-president,' and Edgar any.air.une in -a single month, Smith SSp itzke, treasurer. 9 pointed out that this total represented The club has leased Skcy Harboragano2,1,r1.1prctvr and plans. to. make the 'airport the the 17,297 passengers transported in home of and training grouind for June, .previous record month for the gliding a nd soaring activities in this company; It'also repre .sented a gain area., The best German type soaring o 0. e etoe h ,4 planes are.to be manufactured at th is psegr are i uyaya aiprM.Werle.states. ago. Plan Den,.n.trations The company'sseveîî months cornu- Mr. Steinhau ser, vice-president of lative total of 96,428 passengers, Smith the club, who- is a licensed gliding said, exceeds -the total of 95,688 trans-ý and. soaring pilot from Germany,. i ported -durinig the first, eleven months bringing to Sky Harbor a. 1935 model of 1934 and, is within less, than eigbt "bigh performing" German soaring thousand of the total of 103,745 plane designed by the well known pastrtt for the whôle yea.r. soaring polit, Wolf Hirtb. Hirtb, an Improved equipment, faster sched-- expert in his field, conducted a soar- ules and more convenient services ing and gliding club in New York were cited by Smith as salient reasons a few years ago. The soaring plane for 'these marked gains. Virtually which *Mr. Steinhauser . is briniging- every one of the last t-en months has- is due at Sky Harbor on Sunday, witnessed some improvement in Amn- August 25. It will be. used for enican Airlines' service, be said, and demonstration purposes and to stim- eacb of these ten months bas been ulate interest ini soaring and gliding the Iargest comparable montb f rom activities, according to Mr. Werle. the standpoint of passengers in the Asked to explain the difference be- history ofl the company. tween a glider and a soaring plane, *on Broadway inl Chicago, Antonsen frequently stops at PàI-Wau.kee on bis Wayto work in the morning or on bis way home in, tbe evenhng. He is one -of, those. enthusiastice sportsman pilots who just can'tstay away fromn his airpiane. Takes Over Pal-Waukee* Student Training Work Bill Turgeon, who.for the past three years bas operated the Park Ridge, airport at, River road and Tquhy avenue, is. to become associated With the Aviation Country club, Pal-Wau- kee airport, starting on Monday, Aug- ust 19. Turgeon, a transport, pilot who bas been actively engaged i neronautical' work in the Chicago area for the past ten years, wiIl bc in charge 'of the student training ac- tivities at> Pal-;Waukee. Three.planes will bc used for ,this Work,, a -Fiet±, whicb Mr. Turgeon purchased re- cently from the Aviation Country club, a Waco and a Driggs .Skylark. Fly to Curtiss from Madison in a Stins 1on- Max McCotter and J. L. Robinson, botb of whom are connected withi the Pure Oul company, witb headqui ers at Vadison, Wis., flew to Curtiss air- Discover at the Mou Comfot se J l VII *li plant or auto- 1 UN Ixau0 JE-Aut111 A *%EIZL -'. ------aà%aUIj. mobile towing it, wbile a. soariflg With Art Scbelter as bis com- Mr. McCotter also owns a Stinson, plane, with favorable wind ,and wah ain inyM pee fWn and he brought the propellor of his, weat- pnio, Sdne M. pieel f Wi-plane to Curtiss field, to have some er conditions, znay ascend and remain netka, Essaness Theater corporation in the air for hours after it is re- official, flew to New Yôrk City last repirs made on it.Ths orwa leased. The present soaring plane week. The trip was made ini Spicel' oewie h s iit'stas record is 3652 hours, Mr. Werle said, Stinsoti and the take-off was fromn acted business in the city. whiîe the,ý straight course record is Curtiss airport, where the Winîiet- 320 miles. kan stores bis plane. A two-way Leavýes-Pal-Waukee 'on Chidren Can Leara, To. -radio.- was installed lut the ship in PlgtoMesC as Boys and girls as young as 14 may New York. Fih oW s os take preliminary instructions in soar- Flying bis Lockheed Vega, E. O. IngtSyfabr emesi nAn.:.. #-u.- Beardsley of the Beardsley and Pinper ThieWarner powered Cessxia owned by AI Gemende and "Ches" OIson STINSON FROM AURORA from Elmhurst airport *was at the Ted Isleman, who operates the Fox Ctrtissý airport shop last week for a Valley, Motor service at Aurora, flew compass installation. The joint own- bis Stinson. Reliant to Curtiss airport ers of tbe plane also bad some work last week to bave some work done doue ont the propellor. on the motor.and the, plane. FLIES TO TORONlTO J. L. Younghusband, cosmetics manufacturer, left last Thursday front, Pal-Waukee airport, where he keeps bis plane, on another trip to Toronto, Can . He made thetrip. in..bis Fair- child. 'Mr. Youngbusband, a Can-. adian citizen, bas a home in Toron to. Avenue, lb Quaaiu, il-woeLd Monm- &-ad l. dm wld'a .omnd R.'4'

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