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Courtesy of Jim Ruotsala |
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from 1918 Flying found on K.O. Ecklund's Aerofiles.com website Complete information on the plane may be had by clicking on the name above. |
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The pioneer aircraft inventor and manufacturer, Capt. James V. Martin, has filed a $9,000,000 patent infringement suit against the
United Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation and its subsidiaries. Capt. Martin claims infringement upon his patented landing gear, which he claims was invented by him in 1916. Additional suits which "will involve every aircraft manufacturing concern in the country," and which will claim damages amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, are being prepared, according to a member of Martin's legal staff. |
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from the NASA collection at the Smithsonian Contributed by Helen Rappaport, 10-15-09 |
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IN HISTORY OF EARLY BIRDS By ERNEST JONES, EB Everything considered, the year 1910 was undoubtedly the biggest and best, relatively, that American aviation ever has seen. FIRST AIR RACING The first competitive air meet in America was held at Squantum, Mass., Sept. 3-16, organized by James V. Martin for the Harvard Aeronautical Society. Contestants: Curtiss, C. G. White, Willard, Brookins, Johnstone, Hilliard, Harmon, Burgess, A. V. Roe in his triplane, Horace Kearney and Augustus Post. White collected $29,600 in prizes and guarantees in this first appearance in America; Johnstone and Brookins won $39,250; Curtiss fliers, $16,500. Receipts were $126,000 from 67,241 paid admissions. The day after the Squantum meet closed, Hawley and Post won the National Balloon Race, drifting 453 miles from Indianapolis. Blanche Scott, perhaps America's first woman aviator, began training at Hammondsport for her exhibition career near the end of September. The next week or two saw Brookins establish a new non-stop cross-country record of 86.5 miles ... Donald Gordon fly a plane powered with a 5-horsepower geared motocycle engine ... another new endurance record of 2 hours 45 seconds by Arch Hoxsey in opening the St. Louis meet ... ex-President Theodore Roosevelt fly with Hoxsey. courtesy of Steve Remington - CollectAir |
Collection of Stéphane Sebile |
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by John Jensen. Martin organised a Harvard-Boston flying competition and attracted fliers from all over the world. He became friends with Claude Graham-White, who walked off with most of the prize money from that event. Martin went to England in 1911, enrolled in the Graham-White flying school at Hendon, and learned to fly Farman and Bleriot planes. He soon became a flight instructor at the London Aerodrome and trained many of the men who would later become Britain's aviators in WW1. He married a lady from England in that year, the attractive Lily Irvine, taught her to fly, and she became the first woman in England to do so. On March 11th Martin became the first man to fly over London, and to great acclaim Editor's Note: These introductory remarks have been excerpted from a fascinating article which is found on the Isetta Owner's Club of Great Britain website and recounts the story of James V. Martin and his invention of the Martin 3-wheeler, a little car similar to the Isetta. It also includes references to his wife Lily who was also a pilot. To read the whole illustrated story, just click on the title above. |
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PILOTS OF THE PANHANDLE Jim Ruotsala Product Details Publisher: Seadrome Press: Coated Softcover edition: 120 pages September 1, 1996 List Price: $26.95 Used: $15.54 ISBN: 0965883000 |
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Description: "Volume I of a new series covering aviation in southeast Alaska. This volume covers the first flight in southeast Alaska, the army 'Wolf Squadron' New York to Nome flight up to 1935. The book is thorough on the history and has 180 photos an all time high. Many of these photos have never been seen before and were published in this book for the first time." |
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