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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 29 Sep 1932, p. 18

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,,4X .Fi"eld Glass $650 Complete With cage. A RARE, opportuntt tto purchase a field glass of ment. MAmmufact'r'ed abroad,1 thfis, glass ordinarily souls for' amuch higher pnoe ..Idéa for thir W.rld's Series and Football Seasén1 1 Aier (3e ~'wpany 1645 ORRINGTM4 AVENU, EVANSTON 105 N. WaI*sh Ave. Chicago Stores: 78 E. Jackson BIvd.. 18 S. LaSaile St. Make Vour Docision NOW! 'Enjoy GIL HEAT 77,1. Winter! Dependab1e. cdean ami *con omi col- ti. eNu-WéY Autoinarfic O Surfer solves your heafing prob- lems elfinifely and finhlly.. Ifs Iow fuel consump- thon, ifs smo l, slent motoé., ifs .i.ctric controls &H .ai contrihufe to Nu-Way's supremaçy. IfYou Now Burna .Way aiea assembled at Curtiss-Wrigiit Aeronautical university in Chicago Tuesday of this week te take written ewanations, in accordance with a new and more stringent -iaw passed recentiy to regulate.flying instruction i Illinois. Similar te sts, whicli were arranged by the state'in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, were giv- en at two e ther points in Illinoi- Springfield, and . ast St. Louis-,the: same day. Fiying. instructors were not 'ified thatý those passing the writ- ten test wopld be advised direct by the Departrient cf Commerce as to the date, aft'd Place of the flight test, The ew~tte aw poides that aIl flying inÏtructors must pass botb the writteni and- the .flight examinations before thé'y can gi#e instruction,"for or without hire' or reward," in Illi- nois. Thev must aise have theïrr h- censes registered. with the Illinois Aeronauùtics: commission,, of whicb Mai. !Reed G. Landis cf Giencoe is, chairnian. U. S. Builds 722 Planes, First 6 Months of 1932 Seven hundred and twenty-two air- pianfes were nanufactured in the United States during the first six months of 1932, and 351 of thest planes were for domestic civil use, acording te an anneuncement froni Col. Clarenice M. Young, assistant secretary of commerce for aeronau- tics. The 351 planes buit for civil use ini this countrv from january 1 te junie 30 included 264 inenopianes, 71 biplanes and sixteen autogires. O.f the mônopianes, the majority were land planes of the one, two or three- place open cockpit type, and of the biplanes the niajority were one te five-place open cockpit land planes. During tbe samne six menths' period 325 p.;lns were built for miitary de-- iverv and forty-six for delivery to purchaeýrs in foreign countries for both civil and military purposes. n b. insflied Current items E Curtissaairport indu Departmetit of *were conducted at Friday. irom ing: tests 1hast Louis Niederheiman, a.:Curis- fly- ing student, bas purchased a. Chal- lenger Commandair formerly owned. bit Louis Parkeri Lieutenantý Travis> and bis wife froni Dayton, Ohio, were arrivais at, Curtiss, field iast week, making the trip from D1ayton by plane te visit friends in evanston. Thé Ac 1e of Clubs, Fiying club bas repaired its sbip,* which is kept at, Curtiss airport, and. plans te fly it again soon. The plane was damiged in a crackup about two months age. Morreli Poster 'cf Sioux Falls', S. D , flying a&J-5, Stearman, arrived at Cur ?tiss -field last wéek. Mr. Fos- ter is connected witb' the Mor-reil Paclcing company. Members of tbe Curtiss airport staff report that the pass enger-carry- ing business is still good, despite the. lateness of the seasen and the ch il winds that remind eone winter is 'on thé way. Most Planes Now in Use > Are New, Survey Shows A survey rccentiy conipleted by the Aeronautics bratich of the Depart- ment of 'Commerce showed that the majonity of airpianes now in service are comparativehy new, having been built within the past tbree and one baîf years. A totalof 10,743 aircraft were carried on the Department's, registration records as being eitber licensed or identified.on June i. Ap- proximateiy seventy percent were hi- censed. Among these, there,» were only 371, single 'en gine, and, three muiti-engine craft which were.found te bave been in service since 1926,ý or prier thereto. HUFF RADIAHEAT R 1463 Sherman GREnIef 4181 Ave.. Evanston Winnet ka 441< Illai j in front efthte ciunflotse. bon airporr rhangar last weeic axter a ______________ - three weeks' trip inte Canada. ýer Berry of Winnetka, 1lying nca belonging te the 'Stilîman LEARNING TO FLY was an arrivai at Sky Harbor George Hamara cf Chicago is tak- last week. He came in Wed- ing ,flying instructien in a Fleet at Scy, Harbor airport. e

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