“FLIVVER OF THE AIR”
AIRPLANE BY MAIL-ORDER IS LATEST IN U.S. COSTS ABOUT £2OO (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9 a.m. NEW YORK, Monday. An airplane for 975 dollars (about £200) is the latest mail-order bargain announced by the Sears Roebuck Company, the big Chicago department store. It is known as the “Super-Parasol airplane,” also the “Flivver of the air,“ and is claimed to be foolproof. It can be bought either over the counter and completely assembled and tuned up, with petrol in the tank ready to start, or it can be delivered to mail-order buyers in prepared parts with blue prints and instructions for assembling. It weighs 260 pounds empty, and has a wing span of 25 feet and a maximum speed of 70 miles an. hour. Experiments are now being made with a parachute, which in case of accident could be extended over the wings, engine and fuselage, allowing the airplane to glide down and settle gently.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 686, 11 June 1929, Page 9
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