HONEYMOON PLANE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1920, Page 1

HONEYMOON PLANE

CHICAGO, Jan. 14

The first aid exhibition held in the Middle West is now open here. With the exception of three seaplanes exhibited by the United States Government, it is a show of machines for peaceful,

purposes. There is one British machine, an Avro, shown by the Inter-Allied Aircraft .Corporation of New York, and in charge of Captain B. H. Pearson, Royal Air Force, who made the first sale of the show, selling an Avro to Miss Nelho Brown Duff, the short-story and moving picture scenario writer, who wants an aeroplane for use in her search for material for short stories and plots. The eight American manufacturers re presented are unanimous in an effort to make the aeroplane atractive to men who want speed with comfort. Thus most machines have enclosed cabins, luxuriously upholstered" and adorned with silk curtains and other fittings. One firm shows a “honeymoon machine ” a beautifully appointed little biplane with just enough room for the happy pair and their luggage. ' The absence of large machines is a feature of the show. There is nothing to approach the giant passenger an cargo machines of Europe, the largest exhibited being a Curtiss Eagle accommodating 8 persons. It lias a "1 span of Gift, and three engines of li p. Its flying radius is 350 miles a < full speed of 105 miles. It lands at 50 "“Wiethe visitors are representatives of "several South American Republics interested in aeroplanes for^nuffS; This should be a good held foi Bi manufacturers.