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way. Due to agreement difficulties the duPont connections were short-lived, and as a result Bellanca Aircraft Corporation was reorganized and refinanced stronger than before, with Bellanca in full control.
   The business grew, first with commercial aircraft, then later he entered the military field, during which time his famous places grew in prominence.  For some time these planes continued to set new endurance and long distance flight records and flew across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.  Several times he designed and built special planes primarily for such use.
  During the latter part of the 1930's he also entered the private plane market with the CRUISAIR model, using 70-120 H.P. engines.  During World War II the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation suspended all commercial plane activities and produced Boeing AT-15 and Fairchild AT-21 training planes for the Government.
  After the war he again manufactured private aircraft for a time, then about 1954 sold his interests in the Bellanca Corporation and retired to his rural estate, Sherwood Farm, near Galena, Marylandm but continued his interest by experimenting with new materials, more simple structural methods of aircraft construction and similar activities.  After gradually failing health Bellanca passed away on December 26, 1960 of Leukemia, at New York Memorial Hospital, age 74.  He was survived by his wife, a son, four brothers and a sister.  He was a member of the Early Birds.
  Early Bird, aviation pioneer Guiseppe M. Bellanca devoted his entire life to aviation progress and development, Starting st the very beginning, first as a professional graduate engineer, then a plane builder, self-trained aviator, instructor and manufacturer.  His planes were always exceptional, good looking, finely built and highly efficient.  They could lift more weight per horse power than competitive planes because his philosophy of design was hat every possible part of the aeroplane in normal flight must lift its own weight.  The fuselage of his cabin machines were always carefully designed to conform to an efficient airfoil section.  Brace strubs, etc., were always of lift sections.  A likable mild mannered man, his many outstanding contributions to aeronautics are legend in American aviation history.
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