FLIVVER PLANE AT AIRPORT SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
That the airplane industry is bringing aviation to the average American may be seen demonstrated when The Eaglet, America’s flivver plane, visits the Lykens Valley Airport near Millersburg, this coming Saturday and Sunday, weather permitting.
The Eaglet, scheduled to arrive here about noon Saturday is owned by the Lancaster-Bethlehem Airways and used by them for demonstration purposes. The other which will appear Sunday, is a privately owned ship, and was received at Lancaster last Friday where it was assembled and test flown in one day. It is owned by S. E. Fraim of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, secretary of the E. T. Fraim Lock Company, that city, Mr. Fraim has had a ship of his own for the past few years which he uses for sport flying. He originally flew an OX-5, but upon seeing this new ship, and being impressed by its economical operation, immediately bought one and has found it to be ideally suited to sport flying and instruction purposes.
The Eaglet is a two place open cockpit monoplane with a three cylinder S.0 horsepower Zeckley motor. Its gasoline consumption is about 3 1/2 gallons per hour with the resultant cost of two cents a mile.
The plane cannot be considered a toy because it has been made under the United States Department of Commerce Approved Type Certificate by a Kansas City, Missouri, firm. It has a wing spread of 34 feet and is equipped with air wheels and possesses a comparatively slow landing speed. The plane is of no radical design and it possesses the flying qualities of a full size ship.
Pilot Marion U. Gilbert of the Millersburg Airport, has flown the ship a number of times and is quite well pleased with its performance.
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From the Elizabethville Echo, 18 September 1930, via Newspapers.com.
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