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[[strike through]] way. Due to agreement [[strike through]] Management difficulties occurred and the duPont connections were short-lived. [[strike through]] and [[strike through]] As a result, the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation was reorganized and refinanced, stronger than before, with Bellanca in full control. 
  The business grew, first with commercial aircraft, then [[strike through]] later [[strike through]] he entered the military field, [[strike through]] during which time his famous planes grew in prominence. [[strike through]]  For some time [[strike through]] these planes [[strike through]] Bellanca airplanes continued to set new endurance and long-distance flight records, [[strike through]] and flew [[strike through]] flying across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Several times [[strike through]] he [[strike through]] Bellanca designed and built special planes primarily for such [[strike through]] use [[strike through]] flights. 
  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 ware he again manufactured private aircraft for a time, then about 1954, he sold his interests in the Bellanca Corporation and retired to his rural estate, Sherwood Farm, near Galena, Maryland. [[strike through]] but [[strike through]] His interest in aviation continued and he [[strike through]] his interest by [[strike through]] experimented with new materials, [[strike through]] more [[strike through]] simpler structural methods of aircraft construction and similar activities. [[strike through]] After [[strike through]] A victim of Leukemia and gradually failing health, Bellanca passed away at age 74 on December 26, 1960, [[strike through]] of Leukemia [[strike through]] at New York Memorial Hospital. [[strike through]] age 74 [[strike through]].  He was survived by his wife, a son, four brothers and a sister.  He was a member of the Early Birds. 
  [[strike through]] Early Bird [[strike through]] Aviation pioneer Guiseppe M. Bellanca devoted his entire life to aviation progress and development.  [[strike through]] starting [[strike through]] At the [[strike through]] very [[strike through]] beginning, [[strike through]] first [[strike through]] he was a professional graduate engineer, then a plane builder, self-trained aviator, instructor and manufacturer.  His planes were always exceptional, good looking, firmly built and highly efficient.  They could lift more weight per horsepower than competitive planes because his philosophy of design was that every possible part of the [[strike through]] aero [[strike through]] airplane in normal flight must lift its own weight.  The fuselages of his cabin machines were always carefully designed to conform to an efficient airfoil section.  [[strike through]] Brace [[strike through]] The struts [[strike through]] etc. [[strike through]] were always of lifting airfoil sections.  A likable mild mannered man, his many outstanding contributions to aeronautics are legend in American aviation history. 
  
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