AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 8, 1930

Zeller & Wenzel. Well known in the industry but not overpublicized, experts but not sensationalists were Myron E. Zeller, chief pilot, and Carl Wenzel, chief test mechanic, of Ford Motor's aircraft division. Pilot Zeller flew a Ford to fourth place in the National Reliability Air Tour last September. Mechanic Wenzel was selected to accompany the Ford which Bernt Balchen and the late Floyd Bennett flew to the relief of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen on Greenly Island off Labrador in 1928.

One day last week Zeller and Wenzel were flying an experimental Ford...

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