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6/14-27 TROY-BUILT PLANES MAKE CLEAN SWEEP AT MICHIGAN AIR RACES
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All Firsts Taken By Wacos In Meet Staged By Huron Flying Club - 23 Local Ships Entered
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Waco airplanes, manufactured by the Advance Aircraft Co., of Troy, practically swept the platter clean at the races conducted by the Huron Valley Flying club at Ypsilanti Mich., Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 10, 11 and 12, according to word received by officials of the local company Tuesday. Twenty-three Wacos were entered in the races and captured all the firsts and several other places. 
Ed Knapp, Fenton, Mich., with a Waco Model 9, C-6 motor, took first place in the speed race for all ships with an average speed of 85 miles an hour or more. Charlie Meyers, Troy, test pilot for the local company, took second place with a Waco Model 10. Third place was taken by a Travel-Air ship manufactured at Wichita, Kan.
John L. Livingstone, Monmouth, Ill., took first place with a Waco Model 10 in the pony express race. Ed Knapp with his Waco Model 9, C-6 motor, took second place, and Art Davis, Lansing, Mich., with his Waco Model 10 [[?]] third place. Mr. Knapp is [[?]] distributor for the local compan[[?]]
The pony express race is cons[[?]] an excellent test of the adaptability of ships. Four three-mile laps or heats are flown each day for three days, making a total of 12 heats. At the end of each lap or heat the pilot shut off his motor, lands and exchanges packages with the judge, resumes his place and starts the ship.
Llovd O. Yost. Conyngham, pa., with his Waco Model 9, won first place in the "dead stick landing" contest. John L. Livingstone with his Waco Model 10 was second. In this contest, the pilot, while 1,500 feet high, at a given signal cuts off his motor and lands to a mark, the distance being measured from the center of the hubs of the propeller. Yost landed within 15 feet of the mark and Livingstone 25 feet.
In the "On to Huron" distance race Charlie Meyers with his Waco Model 10 took first place, and John P. Wood, Big Atone Gap, Va., with his Waco Model 9, took second.
Art David with a Waco Model 10 captured first place in the "On to Huron" speed race.
There were 32 ships in all entered in the races and contests.
The next big event in the aviation world for which the local company is preparing is the Ford Reliability tour, all ships for which must be in Detroit June 23. There will be three Wacos equipped with Wright Whirlwind motors reguarly entered, three being the limit for any one manufacturer. Two other ships are being built for observers who will accompany the tour. All these ships must be ready and tested out within less than a week.
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...L WACO PLSNR GIVEN RIGID TEST
Last Sunday the plane was put through tests at an aeronautical meet in Michigan and the latter part of this week it will be flown at Indianapolis taking part in the inauguration of a new flying field there. Following this flight the ship will be brought back to the local factory and will be prepared for the All-American Aircraft display at Washington, D. C., May 2, 3, 4 and 5, it was stated. This will be a huge exhibit of aircraft from all over the United States and is sponsored by Aeronautical Chamber Of Commerce. 
Before returning to Troy from this display the ship will be taken on a tour into the northeast, covering tho New England States.

The distributors for the Waco plane are urging a speedy beginning in the manufacture of this new type plane, since it has met with such approval that orders are being received from many sections of the country, officials state.
The local plant now employs about 65 men but it expected that the force will necessarily be enlarged with this new and popular model steadily gaining prominence. 

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WACO PLANES ARE IN FORD TOUR; WITNESS TESTS
Equipped With Wright Whirl Motor Seen In Maneuvers Over City

Hundreds of spectators were at the local airport Sunday afternoon to [[?]] the testing of the first Waco [[?]] to be equipped with the Wright [[?]] and motor of the type used by Charles Lindbergh in his flight to
[[?]]plane was given every test pos-[[?]] and responded in fine shape. The [[?]] was thrilled by the maneuvers [[?]] was sent through the various...
...ree Waco Planes with the Wright whirlwind motor will be entered in the Ford Reliability tour which starts from Detroit Thursday, June 23. The three planes will be driven by John Wood, Bif Stone Gay, Virginia; Paul Riddle, of Cincinnati, and D.T. Davis, of Atlanta, Ga. All three men are veteran pilots and are employed as distributors for the Waco plane.
Two other Waco planes have been entered in the tour. One by the Cleveland Pheumatic Tool company and one by the Fairchild-Caminez Engine corporation of New York. A Wright E-4 engine is in the Cleveland ship and the Fairchild-Caminez firm is using an engine of their own make.
Two aviators, Charles Prohinzie and Leo Derletzky, of New York were forced down in a wheat field near Moundsville, West Va., Sunday in a Waco plane they were flying from here to New York. Neither man was injured and the plane was but slightly damaged. Repair parts have been sent by air from the local plant.
The accident was caused by the wheat winding around the landing gear and resulting in the plane turning on its nose. But for the tall wheat, the men would have made a perfect landing, the officers at the Troy plant state.

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Lindbergh At Troy Plant Year Ago to Get Airplane For Company At St. Louis

Former Classmate Decalares Famous Flyer Just As Unassuming As Reported In Dispatches

Troy was honored by a visit from Captain Charles Lindbergh, world air hero about a year ago.
The then little known aviator came to Troy for the Bridgetown Aircraft company of St. Louis to secure a Waco plane. After testing the machine at the local field he fle it from Troy to ...Louis. 
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This information was revealed by C. J. Brukner, president of the Advance Aircraft company, in an interview on Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Brukner stated he met Captain Lindbergh but the one time on the occasion of his visit here but was familiar with his record as a flyer for the past several years. Even before his spectacular flight to Paris, Lindbergh was known to his fellow aviators as a daring and expert pilot.
Eugene Stevens, president of the Southern Dusting company of [[?]] the suffering of the residents of the flood district will never be told, Hundreds of persons, he stated, who resided in the thinly settled portions of the country, were swept to their death by the raging waters and their bodies will never be found.
Mr. Stevens said he did not know the present conditions of his home city as he had been away on business in connection with his company for the past month but he understood the waters were beginning to recede and the work of repairing the loss will soon be underway.
The Southern Dusting company, in addition to distributing Waco planes, is one of the leading concern in the rather new business of dusting cotton with poison mixtures to kill the boll weevil.
The business is just in its infancy, according to Mr. Stevens, but is on a commercial basis and is proving very successful. Fields of cotton which are dusted with poison by airplane are practically freed from the pest and Mr. Stevens declares this method is the only successful on for dealing with the boll weevil.