Significant coincidents took place during the last fortnight in motorless flight circles.
¶ Aviation tycoons, among them Richard Hoyt, Sherman Fairchild, Giuseppe Bellanca, William Stout, dining with the National Gliders Association in Manhattan last fortnight, offered nearly $50,000 to promote the useful sport of gliding. They foresaw 1,000,000 glider pilots in 1935 who could easily learn to fly motored planes.
¶ Last week Detroit's Edward Steptoe Evans, founder and president of the National Glider Association and president of the Detroit Aircraft Corp., announced that his aviation corporation had bought Gliders,...
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