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GLIDERS TO BE SHOWN

Two of the gliders in which John J. Montgomery of Oakland conquered the air some 50 years ago will be reconstructed as features of the National Air Museum in Washington, according to arrangements made by the director, Paul Garber, during a visit to this area.

Garber said he had located and talked with an associate of the pioneer airman, Cornelius Reinhardt, now living in the quicksilver mines area at Almaden in Santa Clara County.  From him he learned more about the gliders in which Montgomery invaded the air in 1905 and 1911, Garber said.

All parts of the original glider which Montgomery went aloft near San Diego in 1883–20 years before the Wright Brothers won fame–have apparently been lost, Garber said, and only the 1905 and 1911 gliders will be reconstructed.

Reinhardt, a mechanic, worked on both gliders and added ideas of his own in the construction, according to information gathered by the air museum curator.

Parts of both gliders as well as photos and manuscripts picturing and describing the "kites" have been collected by Garber from Santa Clara University and from the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, which has received them from Montgomery's sisters, Jane and Mary Montgomery of 634 Oakland Avenue, and brother James P. Montgomery, local attorney.

Montgomery, who as a boy, studied the birds flying over his father's ranch near Telegraph Avenue and 41st Street to learn the secret of flight, carried on his flying experiments until he was killed in 1911 while testing one of his own gliders.
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Air Relics Given To Smithsonian

Two more relics of aviation's history in Oakland have been given by the Port Commission to Paul E. Garber, curator of the National Air Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, it was announced today by Claire V. Goodwin, president of the board.

One is a 30,000,000 candlepower floodlight which was one of the first used for night lighting at the airport.  Covering a radius of more than half a mile, it was so powerful that a newspaper could be read on the opposite side of the field.

The other is an aluminum gas tank from the Polar dirigible Norge, which was part of the aviation exhibit at Oakland Airport before the war.

Garber recently was given the Diamond and Wiseman planes, which were flown in the Bay area in 1911.
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