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Although numerous examples of the VP-2 were constructed from plans provided by the Evans Aircraft Company, the VP-2 is no longer being offered with the company having stopped marketing the VP-2 and responding to technical inquiries. The main concern from the company was that the VP-2 may have liability issues associated with two-seat aircraft.
The Italian company granted licenses for construction of three units in the US, one to Budd and the others to other companies. [ 3 ] The resulting BB-1 was a biplane flying boat, with the lower wing attached near the top of the hull and the upper wing held high above, with a single Kinner C-5 radial engine mounted on the aircraft centerline ...
26 Ralph Clayton Diggins (1887–1959) of the Ralph C. Diggins Company. He was born on March 7, 1887, in Cadillac, Michigan and moved to Chicago, Illinois. He made his first flight in 1912 and was the 26th person in the United States to receive a pilot's license issued by the Aero Club of America. He died in 1959. [9] 28 Theodore Gordon Ellyson
A pilot is dead after his small plane crashed into a home just shy of the runway at Chicago's Midway International Airport. The turboprop aircraft went down around 2:45 a.m., sources told WBBM .
The orange-robed icon looks on as the pilot speedily executes a dramatic last-minute turn to land the A319 on the slender runway. A dozen passengers, some of whom have spent the last few minutes ...
"We're upside down and I'm alive," May, now a 55-year-old Chicago pastor, recalled of the landing. ... At the time, Capt. Al Haynes was hailed in much the same way as US Airways pilot Chesley ...
Charles Lindbergh's last pay check as an RAC Air Mail pilot. A Robertson DH-4 used on the CAM-2 Air Mail route. On April 15, 1926, Robertson Aircraft started Contract Air Mail service over route CAM-2 from Lambert Field to Chicago, with stops in Springfield, Illinois, and Peoria, Illinois; Charles Lindbergh was employed as chief pilot for the service. [3]
The Slumbercoach is an 85-foot-long, 24 single room, eight double room streamlined sleeping car.Built in 1956 by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for service on the Denver Zephyr, subsequent orders were placed in 1958 and 1959 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Missouri Pacific Railroad for the Texas Eagle/National Limited, then in 1959 by the Northern ...