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ELMIRA STAR-GAZETTE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1930.
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Glider Pilots Open Classes For Student Aviators When Calm Curbs Record Attempts
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Three Akron Flyers Receive Soaring Qualifications Under Noted Instructors - Mrs. Ralph S. Barnaby, Wife of Navy Flyer, Takes Primary Course in Craft Towed By Auto - Professor Franklin of University of Michigan Heads School - Plan to "Ride" Next Storm.
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Kept from going aloft for lack of winds, the world's leading glider pilots gathered here in the first National Soaring Contests devoted to their efforts Wednesday to instructing student flyers.

Prof. R. E. Franklin of the University of Michigan and president of the Franklin Glider Corporation, spent the afternoon at the airport demonstrating the art of taking gliders off flat land with an automobile towing.

His work interested spectators and pilots alike. One of his pupils was Mrs. Ralph S. Barnaby, wife of the navy flier. Lieutenant Barnaby was expected to arrive today.

Three students of the Goodrich Gliding Club of Akron, O., were awarded gliding qualifications in the afternoon at the Hawley Hill field, two for first class gliding and one for third class.

 Qualifying Judges

Lieut. Roland Myer, naval department inspector, and Albert Hastings, San Diego, Calif., gliding instructor, were appointed to qualify the students by Donald F. Walker, manager of the National Glider Association.

First class qualification stipulates that the glider shall stay up at least one minute and make right and left 90 degree turns. J. S. Kastyov, who stayed up one minute and nine seconds, and E. B. Sutherland, who remained aloft one minute and two seconds, were given first class qualifications. 
   The third class qualification calls for 30 seconds of straight flight. Robert Mayne was qualified in this class when he stayed up for 59 seconds.
   During the instruction period, many of the the flyers remained at the field on peaks of hills surrounding 

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MRS. R.S. BARNABY

the city praying for wind of an intensity up to a cyclone. At 3:30 p. m. the Hornell weather station reported to glider headquarters at The Mark Twain that a storm was on its way. When this information was relayed to the radio car on location, the pilots feverishly prepared to ride the squall. But the storm failed to arrive.
                  Brings Bowlus Craft
   William Beckwith, sales manager of the Hayes Aviation Company, Syracuse, brought a Bowlus glider to Elmira Tuesday afternoon at the request of its inventor, W. Hawley Bowlus, U.S. champion, who is enrolled in the local contest.
   One of the most interested contest visitors is Ronald Gall of the Wright Aeronautical Corporation of Paterson, N. J. Mr. Gall, a former newspaper man, is a frequent contributor to aviation journals. His most recent articles, a description of the new Wright four-cylinder Gypsy engine, appears in the current issue of National Power Glider.
   Professor Franklin, a world authority on motorless flight, said in an interview that gliding enthusiasts regard the movement as a real sport and as a means of polishing up on power plane operation.
   "The student can get more actual flying experience in a few gliding tests than he can in 15 hours of power plane operation" he said. He stressed the great degree of safety of obtained by the pilot of an airplane who has received his primary instruction in a glider.
                   Gliding has Future
   "The public must realize the importance of the glider movements in the realm of flying," he continued, "and it is the function of such meets as the national gathering in Elmira to impress upon those who have given gliding and flying little thought, the place it will deservedly hold in the future. I expect this contest will create its share of interest."
   Professor Franklin praised the Chemung Valley as a superior location for soaring and said he would inspect other cities in this section for gliding fields during the next few days. He declared there is practically no danger in learning to glide under a qualified instructor.
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"We are building a hotel in Dearborn-for rumors."
- Henry Ford.

How Would You Like to Cash This at a 

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You don't believe it? Well read it again:'Seventy-two million five hundred thousand doll
little sum written down on the check reproduced above when the two big oil magnates met to
Jersey City, N.J., the other day. They were Edward G. Suebert, president of the Standard 
of Indiana, and E.W. Sinclair, president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation. The 
pany was selling its half interest in the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company and the 
Line Company.
 

Would Compel Licensing of All Airplanes
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Extension of Franchise to Cover Privately-owned As Well As Commercial Ships Discussed By State Aviation Body at Capitol. 
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Albany, Sept. 25-A move to bring about the compulsory licensing of all airplanes flown in New York State was undertaken Wednesday at a meeting of the State Aviation Commission in the capitol.

At the conclusion of the meeting it was also announced that Republican leaders have given the Commission assurance that the State platform to be adopted at the convention here will contain an aviation plank pledging the party to continue all possible aid to the promotion of aviation in New York.

At the present time the state aviation law requires the licensing only of airplanes flown for commercial purposes. The commission at its meeting discussed the advisability of extending the statute so as to require a license for every plane, whether or not it is used for commercial purposes. 

The license required would be, as at present, that issued by the federal government. The statute would not be effective until Sept, 1, 1931, so that all aviators would have ample time to secure the necessary federal license. 

There are two chief advantages to the plan, as being
cording to Senator Webb of Hyde Park 
the commission. Fir  
ed license costs noth  
hardship will be wor 
owning or operating 
tor Webb said.
    "In the second pl 
"any plane that is 
easily obtain a license 
are not, should not 
way. This is simply a 
en up on existing re 
erning aviation in N 
and in line with the 
Aviation Commission 
every plan that will 
safety of flying."
    Attending the me  
Senator Webb, were  
D. Williams of Utica, 
Ansley B. Borkowski 
Edward J. Couglin 
and Maj. John Dwig 
New York, the latter 
of Governor Roosevelt
mission.

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