The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-10
Luxury, RoomineSS and Gay
HueS Are Features of
New Sky Craft.
1O5 AT DETROIT SHOW
Every Variety of Boat on
Display; indianapolis
Men Attend.
BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM
Times Aviation Editor

DETROIT, April 10.-LuXury,
and brilliant coloring ore
outstanding features of the 1929 air
plane, as displayed at the second
annual all-American aircraft show
at Detroit this week.
One hundred five planes are en-
tered in the show and 1876 applica-
tons were rejected because of lack
of space.
The show this year is bigger and
finer than any previous air expo
SitiOn.
A marked tendency to build for
the man who wants comfort and
roominess in airplanes is seen. The
manufacturers have departed from
the barren, cramped, unheated air.
plane of the past and are catering
to the demand for comfort and ease.
Riot of Color
Brilliance of color, both interior
and exterior, is outstanding. A ma
iority of the planes entered are
gaily painted in various shades of
reds, greens, blues, yellows, browns
and white, with combinations of
colors, just as expensive automo-
biles
Planes entered range from tiny
monoplanes SO small that one man
could lift them from the ground, to
huge transport planes so large that
it seems impossible they could get
eff the ground, with monoplanes
and biplanes, cabin and open jobs
included.
Particularly impressive is the at
tractive manner in which most of
the planes are displayed.
Accessory exhibits are particularly
complete.
In booths surrounding the planes
are motors, parachutes, balloons,
compasses, propellers, watches,
maps, helmets, goggles and other
flying toys, lathes, instruments, re-
yolving beacons, food and boundary
lights, miniature airports, toy hang
arS, aviation magazines and many
other accessories to the worlds
4dSGCoU 81 OWIllS 4IlOuoGIy.
More MonopIanes Entered
An interesting feature of the
show is that there are more mono
planes than biplanes entered, fifty
four monoplanes and f1fty-one BIZ
planes. Forty of the monoplanes
are cabin ship and fourteen open,
while eleven of the biplanes are
cabin types and forty are open,
Five of the f1fty-one biplanes are
of the sesqui-wing type,
The los planes are valued at
$1,000,000. Exhibits by 1874 access
sorry manufacturers are entered.
A number of the planes have the
new NACA engine cowling, which
by reducing wing resistance is
claimed to add from ten to twenty
miles an hour to the planes speed.
Quite a few have the folding
wing feature.
Fifteen of the models seen at the
show we're displayed for the first
time at the coliseum.
Several New Craft
Among the newer planes exhibited
are the Aristocrat three place cabin
monoplane, powered with a Warner
1l0-horsepoWer engine; Invincible
center wing four-place cabin mono
plane; New Standard five-place
open monoplane; Ta-Ho-Ma three
place biplane; Kreutzer six-place
dual control, tri-motored, air coach
monoplane, powered with three Le-
Blond engines; Nicholas Beazley
Airplane Coinpany's Darling NB-3
light three-place low wing open
monoplane, powered with a Lee
Blond 60; Courier three-place high
wing cabin monoplane, Kinner
powered; Mohawk three-place low
wing cabin monoplane, powered
with a Warner Scarab; Coffman
high wing three-pIace cabin mono
plane; Cabinaire four place cabin
biplane; Verville four-place cabin
monoplane, with a speed of $50
miles an hour; Challenger two-place
training open biplane; Great Lakes
light two place open biplane, and
Great Lakes siX-passenger cabin
plane.
Unable to find space in the huge
coliseum, a number Of manufactur-
ers displayed planes in various auto
sales windows, in downtown squares,
at hotels and at the Ford airport.
The Sikorsky amphibian and the
largest ship in the country, the Key
stone Patrician, 22-passenger cabin
monoplane, which recently visited
Capitol airport, are among those dis
played elsewhere, being too large to
be taken into the coliseum.
indianapolis
Among those from Indianapolis
seen at the air show were Lieuten-
ant Lawrence Genaro, and Sergeant
Charles Cunningham, Schoen field;
Major r. F. Taylor, 18th ObServa-
ton squadron commander, Indiana
National Guard; Clarence Gunther,
pilot, Paul Schilling, Indianapolis
Star; Lee H. Hotel, Capitol Anyways
traffic manager, and w. A. McCurry
of the w. A. McCurry Advertising
Company.
McCurry and Hotel are spending
the week in arranging with manu-
facturers Of planes and accessories
for entries in the indianapolis air
show, May 81 to June Q.
Curtiss Flying Service Inc, has an
and complete exhibit of
several of its planes, the Curtiss
Challenger motor and other Curtiss
produces