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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Sep 1933, p. 16

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Cli ff Condit, .:pal-Waukee airport I4 1A D pilot, has been busy makirxg charter' for L.and lanes. trips and taking part in sky parades. The International Air races, officiai On August 28 ie .made .a charter trip competitive aviation event of A Centuiry for the Chicago Daily News to Whit- of Progress exposition, closed at Curtiss ing, Ind., ini one of the PalýWaukeé airport Mondav night. The aerial show Bellancias. 1'rwo days later he took wvas olie of the most spectacular ever i a gro.up of officiais ,Of the A. O . seen iri the Chicago area, and its success Smnith corporation from Chicago, to Nv'as mnarred only,.by* the death of twa, Mihvàukee and return. Last Thurs- of the raciing pilots. day he flew an autogiro in ýthe skyl Roy T. Liggett, Young pilot from paaewhich wvas staged over A Cen- Omalia, Neb., Iost his life Saturday turv of Progress ýgrounds as a cur- whente mll îdwing Cessnia racer ti-asrfor the international Ai*' (Warner motor). which lie wâs, flyiing races'. in a q ualifying speed. trial %vent out. of unrl and crashied f roi a height Two Blimps Carry Many of.30 feet. 'M iss, Florence -Kliigen- Passengers in- August %iv. as.killed, in the feature Lahor The Goodyear blimps, Puritani and day race %%-len the Gee-Bee racer she Reliance, statîoned at- Pal-Waukec was driving at .more* than .220 tmiles an airport, carried a record number of! hour crashied near the intersection of pa~ener fon te ai goudslat 1eîîvieNN, road and Shermier 'avenue ini month. The blimps vere able to i thé iivin el. nnrsey operate on most_ days. Wind were 1 Ne*w Land Plane',Speed Record i favorable,, and the weatlier wvas clear Oeoftehghsos ffu arme and comparatively cool miost of the. was the estalblii'iug of a new wurld's timie. The fact that daily attendancc a d pan Je( rc>diw J m s R ablyin u~ut hlpedtheblips'Wedell.FIin a racer of his 0Wfl (le- passenger-carrying business.sigNo4, t leefsell ilngsaSpecial rac-; nee-course four ties at an average Leave forNantcketin ý of 05.33. iles an hour. 'lle previons. Seavrns eivJamiesHF. Doolifle, vas 294.38 miles George Fisher of Lake Forest leît'ani hur. W\ednesdlay of last wveek froin Sky 'l'lie ship with wich edl m Harbor airport on a plane trip to the ne\w record is powered by a super- Nantucket and other points in the chaIe Wasp miotor of 800 horse- east. He left, inithe. nevw Stinson pwr i aem~rtutMaio Relantow~edbyLous SavrnsofDoolittle used to set his mark, \when hie Lake Forest. The ship lias been f romi toQkth spe rcodaa frm coast to coast, Fisher recemtly hav- Fac.WdW e n lc ln ing returned from a trip to Californiia attained a mnaximumi speed of 316.55 with niembers of the .Seaverns family. imiles an liour as it flashed along the course on one down ind lap. 3 National Guard Planes Watch Start of Balloon Race Tow Ft. Sheridan Targets tearrcs adwthdtetr Three National Guard plan.es. from of the Gordon Bennett, international. the- Chicago municipal airport have i al loon1 race iast Saturday. As this bee maingther emprar hed-issue went to press four of the sixbal- 1quarters at Sky Harbor airotwst-n hihsate i herc1a of Gencewileenggedifltowiiglanded. Commander T. G. - W. Settie, targets for the Fort Sheridan anti- wînner of the race last year, landed aircraft boy-s to shoot at. The three a f tcrhvingre, Çonn, Monday planes are Douglas observationi ships. a ocks r, nliglit ftrhvn dri fted approximately 800 muiles 'front Curtiss airport, the Tom Sheffield of Laike greatest distance -traveled by any of the Forest. Soloes in Fleetbabôshk hdbenhar.fo W <iîml ei W hoêW ear dILtlaetiv Tom Sheffield of. Lake Forest ,Fpýr the. air enthtisiasts who enjoy soloecl recently at Pal-Waukee air- stunit flying Maj. E~rnst Udet ofGr clot eS ïlllik thse catsbecusethe're port' in one of the Pal-Waukee many and Lieut. Tito Falconi of Italy, Wd1keheeeots~ç~j~t1eyre Fleets.' Mr. Sheffield, sconnected thie 4upside down.flyer,"' provided plenty. typical STE ES vlesýad N rt hr. wiflj the New England , lapsib.1el'f thils."Spd" Manning so.made a typTube c OJUl oipany, 3132 S. Canalstreet, few' heart s skip,. beats with bis dâring Imunknw wbftt tbhat means. . ovely furs. Chicago. Hle took bis "linin nstruc- prcuejmsfru egto 1ur tion from Capt. Vincent 'Taylor of. tha to mes fo eglto,, 14Pefabr andup -to te.mintesmatnss. SkyW arborC** $1i &$ban two *mles., LA Left a lckeoh o-trm w it: Persa ' ....125A socton abif 'hiaft*rgs De nr.Owsley S tey sHv :uo aoe' caponhpale0 R oin ee n h L espi toi~nanentat he Rtuor ~unty tefanct th a s he sldihas tw air- E È a r 4 . S t e ~ ~~n ~ . I n c > clubf in i hl n p .E l n ~ F I S T I Se e a al W u e p i ae pl n 2 nP T~ o i p n f A w hhr leu !Ruooe MAVUNp owners, among them' Ralph Ishamn leadrwho recently became a father, and Lloyd Laflin, flew to Elgin on f1kw his Stinson.to Dixon, Ill., last Saturday, August 26,. for the Elgin Thursday. He left f rom 'Pal.-Waukee roadcLraces. airport, wherehe keeps theship. -

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