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THE EVENING TRIBUNE, HORNELL, N.Y., MONDAY, JULY 15, 1957

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HILTON'S BABY ACES–Two of the airplanes which were flown to the Breakfast Hop of the Hornell Flying Club Inc. at the Hornell Airport yesterday morning were these home-built Baby Aces from Hilton. The Corbin Ace, in foreground, flown by "Squeek" Hepler, is shown as H.L. Silloway, operator of Hilton Airport, inspects the leading edge of the right wing. Left to right, Rodney Ross of Cape Elizabeth, Maine; William J. Testani of North Hornell; Silloway, and Eugene Hayes of Savona. In the background is the Hilton Ace, which was flown by Silloway. Each plane is equipped with a 65 horsepower engine and cruises about 100 miles per hour. 

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EARLYBIRD, EARLY ARRIVALS——Among early arrivals at the Breakfast Hop of the Hornell Flying Club Inc. at the Hornell Airport yesterday morning are left to right, John R. Truesdell of Warsaw; Leon R. Slocum of Perry; Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott of Hornell, pioneer woman pilot and a member of the Earlybirds Association; Lloyd R. Burdett, mayor of Hornell; and William E. Richtmyer of North Hornell, general chairman of the Breakfast Hop. A total of 101 breakfasts were served at the fly-in, drive-in event.


Fly-in Breakfast Draws 101 at Hornell Airport

A total of 101 persons from airports throughout central and western New York State attended the Fly-In Breakfast sponsored by the Hornell Flying Club Inc. at the Hornell Airport yesterday morning.

Planes, pilots and passengers arrived throughout the morning from Olean, Medina, Buffalo, Spencerport, Wellsville, Syracuse, Weedsport, Niagara Falls, Palmyra, Enfield, Bath, Ithaca, Penn Yan, Dansville, Perry and Warsaw.

Special guests at the Breakfast Hop included Mayor Lloyd R. Burdett of Hornell; Hornell Postmaster and Mrs. Francis J. Kelly of North Hornell; Mrs. Blanche Stuart Scott of Hornell, a member of the Earlybirds Association, and credited with being the first woman pilot; Al Heidenreich of Short Tract, who flew in with his 1931 Stearman biplane; and H.L. Silloway of Hilton, who flew the Hilton Ace, a home-built midget monoplane.

The Corbin Ace, another midget based at Hilton, was flown in by Squeek Hepler. Other aircraft flown in included three Aeronca Champions, one Aeronca Sedan, one Bellanca, one Cessna 140; two Cessna 170's two Ercoupes, one Luscombe, two Piper Cubs, one Piper Vagabond, two Piper Super Cruisers, one Piper Family Cruiser, two Piper Tri-Pacers, one Stinson 105, one Stinson Voyager, one Stinson Station Wagon and two Taylorcrafts.

Heidenreich's Stearman attracted considerable attention of other pilots and visitors. His plane is only a few models earlier than the Stearman trainers on which World War II learned to fly in the Army Air Corps.

The two midgets received their own share of attention from local and visiting pilots. Each is a parasol-wing, single place monoplane om home-built construction, powered with a 65 horsepower engine and capable cruising 100 to 110 miles an [[cut off]]