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The librarian of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation at Buffalo was especially pleased to see and study not only the Curtiss aircraft and models on exhibition but also the extensive lot of Curtiss data donated several years ago by F. L. Faurote. Mr. Lanstedi of Los Angeles who is working upon a life-saving device which combines the features of a glider and a parachute studied our collections of these aircraft and felt that the William H. Martin glider of 1909 embodied several applicable features. Miss Felicity Buranelli of New York City, who has produced a series of medals commemorating aeronautical pioneers, has selected G. H. Curtiss as her present subject and is using the photographs and data in our files. Mr. Charles Hubbell of Cleveland, Ohio, artist for the Thompson Products series of calendars on aeronautical subjects stated that he derived numerous suggestions and material for his paintings while visiting the Museum recently. Mr. C. H. Evans and Mr. G. S. Truman, who are planning a flight around the world in a "Piper Club" airplane visited the Museum to be photographed with the "Winnie Mae" and the "Spirit of St. Louis" and while here studied the interior arrangements of these craft and the routes which they had followed.

Station WFBR of Baltimore which conducts a weekly program directed to the interest of various hobbyists borrowed from the museum a Chinese kite, two models of airplanes, and a group of illustrations, to be used in a show window portraying the history of aeronautics. This material was exhibited during the week of May 5, 1947.