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May, 1911  AVIATION  29
AEROGRAMS

Walter Brookins has been commissioned aid-de-camp of the governor of Idaho's staff with the rank or lieutenant-colonel.

Australia's first aeroplane factory has been established in a suburb near Sydney.

Tom C. Shriver is again back at San Francisco, Cal., after making several flights at Manila.

Orville Wright recently tested an "Aeromotor" at Dayton, Ohio, and succeeded in getting a speed of 1800 R. P. M. with the regular Wright testing stick.

Henry Peterson of Nome, Alaska, is completing a biplane of his own construction. He expects to try out the latter part of the month.

The new all-metal biplane of Capt. Thomas Baldwin was recently tried out and made several flights over Mineola, L. I.

Louis Fersner of Trenton, N. J., is completing a monoplane of the Bleriot type. A Gray Eagle motor will be used for the power plant.

H. M. McGregor of Bakersfield, Cal., is anxiously awaiting the arrival of his Curtiss type biplane which has been shipped from Alexandria, La. He is contemplating a trip to Canada.

Mrs. Arch Hoxsey of Pasadena, Cal., mother of the late Arch Hoxsey, is to receive the $1000 cup won by her son at Belmont Park for totalization duration of flights.

Richard Allen of Bonita, Cal., has been testing the new Harvard College aeroplane near Boston, Mass.
D. L. Dennis of Franklin, Ind., is installing a Gray Eagle motor in his biplane, and he expects to try out within the near future.

Phil O. Parmalee recently paid a visit to the Detroit Aeronautical Construction Company. Phil says he expects to have a plane of his own some of these days, and that the "Aeromotor" looks good to him.

V. Bellinsa, of Petaluma, Cal., is completing something new in an aeroplane and is preparing to ship his machine from the grounds at Kenilworth Park to San Francisco, Cal.

Charles Glidden, donor of the Glidden Tour Automobile trophy, is seeking landing sites for an aerial passenger line. He has already decided upon sites in Rochester, Worcester, Springfield, New Haven and Bridgeport. The first line of aerial traffic will extend from Boston Washington.

Ray Harroun is successfully making flights at Indianapolis motor speedway. The monoplane is equipped with a 22 h.p. motor of 95 pounds weight. The frame work is made entirely of steel tubing, and the wings are six feet wide by 14½ long. The control is similar to that of the Antoinette type of the machine complete weighs but 400 pounds.

A dispatch from Paris states that in a decision by the third civil tribunal of the suit of Wright Brothers against several French aeroplane manufacturers for the infringements of patents the court upheld in principle the contentions of the plaintiff, but declared that it did not wish at present to render a definite decision as the science of arbitration is to new to admit an arbitrary finding. 
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NEW ALL-METAL MONOPLANE.

A new speedy monoplane of a neat design is being build in secret a few miles northwest of Chicago. The machine will be of the all-metal type with aluminum surface, and it is hoped to attain speed of over 100 miles an hour. It is to be flown by Lieut. E. Maynard Harrison, U.S.A., who is also an instructor at the American School of Aviation. M.K. Kasmar, technical instructor of the above school, and Frederick Langwell, are co-inventors with Lieut. Harirson. It is hoped to have the machine completed in time for the meet which is to be held in Chicago this summer.
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