The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28

The Sikorsky workmen are just
 as good at bowling as they are at construction of giant liners of the air. Every Tuesday night they for l get about rivets, wings, motors and all that goes to make up the huge crafts and spend their evening top bling the pins in Stratford. Mike Urovikoff, Capt Sergievsky's flight
 mechanic, is apparently the star of the alleys. e. .s Connecticut celebrated the 31st anniversary of flight by man in a power driven plane last week with the military ships in the air at Hartford and the private aircraft "doing its stuff' at Bridgeport. Captain Sergievsky piloting the Osa's Ark of the Martin Johnson's had to almost glide the full thirty minutes so that he could stay in the formation. His amphibian was twice as fast as the fastest plane in the air.
 Fred Moller, Al Zotack and Mor- his Shumofsky flew over to Roose- welt field this past week to nave their ships relicensed by the Fed eral inspector. The government man had already made. his month lv trip here and with the fine weather the trio decided to "hop" the ships across to Roosevelt.
 You just can't keep Col Roscoe Turner on the ground. Now the fly ing Colonel is taking of circling the globe at the equator. Those In aviation in this section who know
 him well are confident he not only
 will make the trip successfully but that he will break existing speed records.
 Ernest Tucker, Miss Katherine
 Underhill of New Haven and Fred
 Moller hopped over Bridgeport this past week SO that the young lady might glimpse the Park City from the air. They are regular visitors at the Mollison' airport.
 Here's a chance in case we
 missed in sending out our mail tG thank all those aviation enthus- lasts who send Christmas greetings. That card sent out by the Pratt
 & Whitney Company of Hartford
 is the. headliner to date with It's flying eagle.
 The history lesson this week shows that on December 30. 1Sl0. M. Labuteau of France, made a record nonstop flight at Buc' France, of 3S2 miles. Today we speak of 5000 miles nonstop as
 "just a jaunt." Our history further shows that at this time in 1927 w xN1o V1aadn Unnd. will tour of 10000 miles around I.atin-American continents. The flight lasted from December 21 to
 May 2.
 You can put in your book that the Soviet, U. s. S. R.. has the worlds largest land plane. the
 "Maxim Gorky." Its eight engines total 1000 h. p. and provide cruising speed of 135 m. ?. h. The load is seven tons, including forty passengers, a crew of twenty-three a printing press and complete eo,iipment for motion pictures with sound. Remember we said lana planes.
 Clyde Burkett, who used to be hoss mechanic at the Mollison held when the Curtiss- Wright people were in charge came in from New
 ark Airport to Bill St John last week. Clyde has just returned from the Douglass factory out west where he saw fourteen new ships under construction for fut- ure trans continental flights.
 While New York Is fighting hard
 to move the airport from Newark 10 Floyd Bennett field we feel con.
 fldent that the move will not be
 made, all reports notwithstanding Even, now extra hangars are being
 built for the giapt Douglas air. liners at Newark and companies are not just throwing away money
 these days.
 Yep. even this column goes in
 for reading those thrilling detec.
 tive flcfien yarns complied by Cur.
 lia Steele and known O the world
 as Operator No. s. Steele, who