“FLIVVER OF THE AIR”
AEROPLANES SOLD OVER COUNTER CHICAGO STORE’S LATEST IDEA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy right. LONDON, June 10. (Received Juno 11, at 9 a.m.) The New York correspondent of ‘The Times’ states that an aeroplane for 975d0l (about £200) is the latest mail order bargain announced by Sears, Rodbuck, and Company, a big Chicago department store. It is known as a super-parasol aeroplane, also “ flivver of the air,” and is claimed to bo foolproof. It can bo bought either over 1 tho counter and completely assembled and tuned up, with petrol in the tank ready to start, or delivered to mail order buyers in prepared parts, with blueprints and instructions for assembling. It weighs 2601 b empty, and has a wing span of 25ft. Its maximum speed is seventy miles hourly.
Experiments are now being made with a parachute which, in case of accident, could be extended over the wings, engine, and fuselage, allowing the aeroplane to glide down and settle gently.—London ‘Times’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 20198, 11 June 1929, Page 9
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