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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1928
Page
17
A. M. program runs 10:00 to 11:30 with a recipe exchange, Panatrope demo, and historical talks on Indianapolis Public Library sessions. Afternoon features at 2:15 includes radio tinkering and 3:00 highway condition bulletin by Indiana State agencies.
A dense schedule of radio programs and network affiliations in Indianapolis Times style, listing times from 4:50 to 9:30 with musical performances, lectures, and sports scores. Stations include WFBM, NBC Red and Blue networks, WEAF, WJZ, WGR, and others, with acts like the Mendelssohn Trio and Diana Ballroom events.
Detroit hosts the Gordon Bennett Cup balloon classic with thirteen pilots from seven nations including Maag Kepner Blanchet Bienaime Kaulen and Eimermacher. The event recalls past races with fatalities and remarkable feats while wind currents favor a New England route.
William D. Longyear, banker and ABA treasurer, says American bankers are turning to aviation. He recalls family travel from Kalamazoo to San Diego in nine days by freight car and from New York to Los Angeles planned for an 80 thousand dollar airship that could cut the trip to thirty six hours, signaling a new era of faster transport and national development.
The Savoia endurance plane flown by Captain Ferrarin and Major Prete is a monoplane with the engine placed in an elevated egg above the wing and the propeller behind it. It has a 62 foot wingspan and weighs 5,952 pounds loaded. A cement runway at Monte Celo field was built with a seven degree incline to aid startup.
Times Special reports a Sunday Boost Fort Wayne Aviation Day at Sweebrock airport featuring an aviation parade over the city a twenty five mile race and a dead stick landing contest Miss Dorothy Curran a parachute jumper and Gene Rock a local flyer are on the program with a delayed opening drop planned.
Evansville will get plane taxi service at about railroad rates. F. J. O Neal of the O Neal Aircraft Co Vincennes buys two Ryan cabin monoplanes for 25000 to be delivered around Aug 1. Edward Stork Evansville Aero Club instructor joins the venture.
Capt. Phil Love and Maj. H. C. Ferguson inspected landing fields around the city Thursday in preparation for mapping a trans continental air rail route. Love arrived by auto and flew over the city in a Waco biplane borrowed from Wiley Carter at the Indianapolis airport to assess suitable fields from the air.
British air authorities grant Germany permission for the passenger Zeppelin LZ 127 to fly over England during a trial trip. The airship, under construction at Friedrichshafen, is due for completion in July and is intended as a precursor to a proposed around the world flight.
Leonard Slo spent hours at Indianapolis airport on business Thursday then returned to Detroit in his Stinson plane later that day.
The item compiles 8 30 A M weather data from J H Armington and Donald McConnell with wind, pressure, temperature and visibility. It also lists a dense program schedule of NBC Red Network stations and musical ensembles with times from midnight to the afternoon, noting orchestras, bands and dance programs across cities like Detroit Cincinnati Chicago New York San Francisco and Denver.
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