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Wichita Kans 1921

Makes Location From Airplane

Jake Moellendick Flies to Dodge City and Picks Place for Test from the Air

The first location for an oil well made from an airplane in Kansas was made Saturday, when Jake Moellendick, Wichita operator, flew to Dodge City and made a test on the Holliday farm on Hawley creek northeast of Dodge City. The test is to be drilled by Dodge City Development company, which has a large block of acreage in the territory, and the drilling contract has been let to Moellendick & Lander, of Wichita. The rig will be erected and the test started as soon as possible. 
Mr. Moellendick, piloted by Buck Weaver, made the trip to Dodge City in an hour and forty minutes, then flew to Utica in 45 minutes. On the return trip they stopped at Great Bend and Hutchinson, making the trip from Utica to Great Bend in 40 minutes, and from Great Bend to Hutchinson and from Hutchinson to Wichita in 30 minutes each. The expense of the trip was $1385. The distance covered 500 miles.


Sunday chgo Tribune 1923

Aviation

Weaver Gives Views on Air Transport Lines
BY MORROW KRUM

It was just an ordinary luncheon in an ordinary restaurant. They talked about their own business, that of flying. George ("Buck") Weaver had flown up and down and across and back over the United States several times this summer. R. W. Schroeder sat beside him. Schroeder is with the Underwriters laboratories, and tests flying machines before they are flown. Nimmo Black, head of a Chicago airport, was there. 
They talked of flying. Soon people at other tables were listening. Black said something about an aerial passenger line. 
"Now, I have my own ideas about passenger business," said Weaver. "Listen to my idea, and see if I'm not right.
"By all means form an air line. Get a fleet of airplanes. Fix up a schedule. Have an airplane leave a certain spot at a certain time for a certain place every day. Stick to that schedule. If passengers arrive at the field 5 minutes after 'plane time' tell them the ship has gone but that they can catch it tomorrow or else hire a special ship. Get the people educated to the fact that airplanes of your company fly as regular as trains.
"But don't try to carry passengers first. Build your ships so they will carry freight and passengers, too. Make your big play for freight. Let the passengers come as they please. You will make money carrying freight. Plenty of business men want a fast freight line.
"Can't you see that if you get a freight line operating, the passengers will commence to drift in to your air port. They won't use airplanes until they have to, but when they are forced to get some place in a hurry - they will come. Then one ride will convince them. They will decide the airplanes are safe, and that they are time savers. Then they commence using them regularly. The bulk of the people will not use airplanes until they are forced into it. In the mean time you are making money with the freight business. See what I mean?"


Aviation Queries

Questions regarding aviation will be answered in this column of The Sunday Tribune. If a lengthy or personal answer is desired, send a stamped addressed envelope. Address Aviation Editor, The Chicago Tribune.

Address.
"What is the address of the Curtiss company? K.J.H."
Curtiss Airplane and Motor corporation, Garden City, L. I.

Span. 
"What is the span of the Curtiss 'Jennie,' the N.C.4? K.L."
The span of the wings of a "Jennie" measures 43 feet and 7 inches. The N.C.4 is 126 feet.

Motors.
"Can you tell me the bore and stroke measurements of the Wright Hispano 'E-2' motor? L.L.B." 
The bore of that motor is 120 m/m, 4.724 inches. The stroke is 130 m/m, 5.118 inches.


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DAY OF [Cut off] AT FLYING TOURNEY

Stunts of Many Kinds on the Bill at Curtiss Field Exhibition of Latest Models.

PUBLIC IS URGED TO ATTEND

Smallest and Largest Planes to Go Up, and Squadron Will Hold an "Aerial Dog Fight."

A flying meet, in which leading American and foreign types of airplanes will compete, is to be held this afternoon at Curtiss Field, near Mineola, L.I. As announced by the Aero Club of America, the event is for the twofold purpose of demonstrating the practicability of the airplane as a carrier and exhibiting the newest designs in flying craft. Caleb Bragg, Chairman of the Contest Committee of the club, has issued an invitation to the public to attend the meet, which he predicted would eclipse any similar exhibition ever held in this vicinity. 
One of the main events will be an exhibition of formation flying such as ex-service men at the front lines were accustomed to see over their heads. Twenty-five airplanes will participate. Following this, spectators will have an opportunity to watch a balloon shot down in flames at a height of 3,000 feet.
An "aerial dog fight" has been arranged as a diversion. Fifty brilliantly colored toy balloons filled with gas are to be released, and when they reach a height of 2,000 feet a squadron of eight Curtiss pursuit planes will engage in a free-for-fall raid to burst the balloons with their propellers. A prize is to be awarded to the pilot who downs the most. 
A Thomas Morse S-6, a Curtiss and a Farman plane wil make an attempt to break the world's speed record. Another Farman, which has flown as slow as twenty-five miles an hour, will demonstrate how a plane may be flown [cut off]
largest planes in this country will leave the ground together. They are the Remington Buranelli, having a wing spread of 77 feet and a passenger cabin holding thirty persons, and a fifteen-foot wing spread biplane constructed by a merchanic in the employ of the Curtiss Company. Eddie Stinson, one of the pioneer fliers, wil pilot the "Peewee."
Emphasizing the commercial side of aircraft, aviators will pilot passenger-carrying planes over nearby courses with the idea of demonstrating how the plane may be of service to the business man. A silver trophy will be awarded to the pilot whose chosen course in the opinion of the judges has the most practical value as a commercial route. Among the types of planes, American and foreign, which have been entered in this competition are Curtiss, Fokker, S. V. A., Laird Swallow, Thomas-Morse, Loening flying yacht, Farman and Larsen. The round trip must not take longer than eight hours under the rules. 
The program, as arranged by Curtiss officials and H. H. Hartney, executive secretary of the Aero Club of America, includes "thrillers," such as looping the loop, falling leaf, flying upside down and barrel rolls. A parachute contest, in which twelve men will compete for a prize for reaching the ground the quickest, also will be held. 


Chgo Daily News 1923

[Cut off] TO REST AT MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY

[?] AS THE FIRING SQUAD SHOT OVER GRAVE OF MAJ. PAUL MILNOR, ACE OF THE A. E. F., WHO WAS BURIED LATE SATURDAY. AT LEFT IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF PLANE PILOTED BY GEORGE ("BUCK") WEAVER, ONE OF THE "BIRDMEN" WHO DROPPED FLOWERS ON FUNERAL CORTEGE.

[By a staff photographer of The Daily News.]

The funeral of Maj. Paul Milnor, former ace of the American air [?], held Saturday from the home of his parents, 8625 Marshfield avenue, George ("Buck") Weaver, widely known as the premier pilot of America led a squadron of flyers who participated in the funeral ceremonies. Each plane was loaded with huge baskets of flowers, and as the planes followed the slow procession of carriages to the final landing field of their dead "buddy" they strewed the pathway with the last flowery messages. 
Maj. Milnor, who was killed in an automobile accident near Prescott, Iowa, had a known record of having spent more than 2,000 hours at the controls of his airplane. He was considered by his associates in the Aero Club of Illinois one of the most efficient and conscientious pilots in the association. After the funeral rites the body was taken to the Mount Hope cemetery for burial. Besides his parents Maj. Milnor is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Milnor, and two sisters. 

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