The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-29

ing in that heavy wind storm last week Sunday. Murray took off and with his throttle wide open showed how to fly backward. The wind was above 50 mile velocity over the airport. In order that he might come In for safe landing Mur- ray had to use power because of a 35 mile per hour ground wind.
 Joe Krasmar, one of Fred Mol ler's students at the Mollison air. port joined the Mollison alumni at the Sikorsky factory last week.
 Fred Moller incidentally rates sort of ace high with the Pan American airways people. This crew at the airport modelled em- ergency repair kith which have been shipped to the PAA station in California and will be distribut- ed on the trans-Pacific stations.
 We had our first sure sign of spring at the Mollison field last week when Dr Rudolph Stawow-. czyk, Bridgeports flying dentist, Dr Jo Levy also of Bridgeport, Morris shumofsky, and some of the other local flyers wheeled their ships II ho'ti eho Adh6"i oHu Iooh d iooh upstairs.
 Most any day now we expect to hear that Doc Stawowczyk has bought that Bellanca he has been ! looking at and will make final pre- parations for a transoceanic hop to Poland. Doc has wanted to make the flight for more than a year.
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 A net loss from operations of $1,061, ,371 for 1894 was disclosed last week in the annual report of North Americans Aviations, Inc. However, securities sales showed profit of $1,268,293 so that the company closed the year with an actual surplus of $206,921. The congress better hurry up with that Air Mail legislation if these boys are to keep going on operation.
 Igor Sikorsky, designer of the giant flying boats resumed his lec- turing last week speaking before a large audience in Kingston, New with Michael Gluhareff, MT Silk orsky attended the meeting of the United Aircraft company technical company in Hartford. They. aret both members of this committee.
 Eddie Conklin who has been visiting with friends around here left last Thursday after taking some of his friends for a short hop over town.
 Fred Moller doesn't take chance with flying when the wind Is high at the airport. When the high winds kept folks busy chas- ing their hats last week Fred grounded all his ships and advised other pilots to remain on the ground. Fred is safety first at all times.
 The Boy and Girl Scouts around these parts are going to get plenty of airplane rides during the Easter vacation if Lew Griebel has any thing to say about it. Lew is dash ing around to Scout meetings, and c. A. as well as the public and parochial schools arranging to have the children fly with Fred MoOler.
 Al Boston has been named by Fred Moller in charge of serving of planes at the Mollison airport to replace Al Zotak who sailed last month for South America to enter the PAA service.
 Capt Eddie V. Rickenbacker, general manager of America's third largest air transport system announced last week that Paul Brattain has been named as gen. eral traffic manager of Eastern Air Lines. Goodrich Murphy will be northern divisional traffic man. ager at New York and John K. Ottley, at Atlanta, Georgia.
 Matt Saunders was host to thirty five students of the Mollison air school last Thursday night at the opening of Wallace Beery's pie. ture, West Point of the Air" Fred Moller, Captain Boris Sergievsky. Hugh Herndon, Murray and Nancy Hawley were also among the guests.