The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • 123

April 22, 1928 ENQUIRER SUNDAY MAGAZINE Page ati Air Pilots of incmn life' -SSa- -S2r If fiw4n 1 1 ii tw II cr ill EMEKV; "RALPH GSM THE HALPtH DEVELOP- MV: It IB I I I UTh III Thomas E. Halpin, builder of the "Flamingo plane, jvas attracted to Cincinnati because of its ideal location as an aviation center. hAUPtN DEVELOPMENT BY M. B. HERMAN HIS Is.

tough. Thomas E. Halpin has no conductor's cup, uniform nor ticket punch. Halpin Constructed in ONqtiNWi. Is better than a motor car, and are making almost five miles per gallon with a ton load.

Planes are now built In Cincinnati with all these characteristics. and are getting greater performance than any other planes built around the same power. "With the establishment of Cincinnati's commercial flying projects has come a' very definite position in world aeronautics for the city." The "Flamingo," the first all-metal passenger and express monoplane buUt in Cincinnati by Halpin and Ralph Graichen, chief engineer In is entitled to all this regalia, however, it he has carried more than 15.000 passengers In the airplanes he has operated since he returned to enlisted with the Engineering Corps ter of the United States, both In A. -t Denver, at the entrance of the peace and in war." says Halpin. America with the Army of Occupa- Vnitei states into the World War.

"Geographically its situation Is Ideal, t'on. He, while burrowing like engineer! Here are fine landing; fields; there Halpin is one of the new Clncin- have to do, during the major battles are few in the world finer than Era- the Halpin plant, has a capacity of a upon the slightest provocation. Pilot, five passengers and baggage. natlana. having been attracted here of st- Mlnlel.

the Argonne, Chateau bry-Rlddle Field or Watson Airport. him h. rin.inn-. lotion eo- Thierry and Les Vosges, had his in Cincinnati is a fine supply of TTalnin Irnnva whir If toilet And WAfih rnnm am rmnvi4 graphically and in many other ways. h9art ln the air- He wanted to be an technically skilled labor necessary to he talking about.

Now listen to room Is available for two more pas- as an aviation center. But more aviator, but couldn't pry himself loose the production of the airplane. The hjm d8course a blt on his favorite sengers. Dimensions are: about this in a minute or two. Let's from the ground force? until after the Queen City has 15 industries that are theme.

wlnj aprMlj iS eet. wingarpa. JS4 take a look at Halpin, the flyer and "fhting was over. Then he went t- absolutely essential to the manufac- you haT never rldde an feet. leBKth of fuselage.

30 airplane builder. thelr Issoudon. France. ture of planes. Then.

too. Dayton. airpUne you are not aWe tt th(nk feet; over aI, feet; we, ht Halpin does not look like one's When Halpin was returned-to Amer- with its vast aerial equipment la thre dimenslons. Bpace is too empty. 2.7S4 pounds; gross weight idea of an aviator.

He looks more ica he went to Kelly Field, where hid only a few minutes distant by air. vast to inMglnei without the 4.SS0 pounds; useful load. 2 05- like an alfalfa raiser. Nor does he "chooling was completed. Then back and in case of war, Dayton and Cift- Bctual experience.

niffht ln an en. capacity passengers and ni- look like a daredevil-just the oppo- to college in Colorado, and then into clnnatl could work hand in hand cIoBed al Un, dierent from 6 P'L site. Now. ther ar-or were-eome the air again. Seems Ilk, once a the production of military plane, for what you lmafflne fl i8 lf vou l0n1 500 Pund hor who look the part like the Sets a taste of flying he be- defense and attack.

never flowni aa black ls from 120 miles movie actor, who let a real filer do comes an addict. They can't keep "i did not know when I started for wnlte of helht "uwlnff "P.feJ. to 120 miles per their feet on the ground very long at Cincinnati." HalDin added, "that here uuui. iu.ijj apeea, in nines per the stunts while they pose ln hel- m.t. p-no-lo.

nrt a time. are manv nun of means and vision i. ncrriue uog. io.uuu iuei; raw gadgets. Halpin Is Just about a.

Halpin Joined ths staff of an air- interested in the future of the air as far-away but there is a very definite clinb, 1..50 to 1,500 feet per min- handsome as IJndbergh and Just as P'ane company in Detroit He was a passenger and freight route. But o( a Upport and security even Ute; 1 gallons per boyish and likeable. "Tom" may not airplane inspector, chief inspector, i have learned this fact since, greatly Deond tnat of a raiWay train or in hour; oiI consumption, 2 quarts per like this description of himself, but and eventually assistant to the gen- to my delipht I have been told that Iaater vehicles on the ground. hour: Pwer PIat 420 horsepower the writer's ears stick out, too, so eral manager. For two years he flew Cincinnati let the automobile industry There la none ot tne road jar 0( the W- entne: total gas capacity.

ISO "Tom" can't be offended. the route connecting Detroit with Bllp out of it. control; that Chicago automobile, nor side sway of the total oil capacity, 11 Halpin has more than hours Grand Rapids, Cleveland, Buffalo and took the wreath labeled "Porkopolis raitway coach, but ln normal flight, cabin space. 195 cubic feet; cabin, 10 In the air to hia credit; has never Chicago. off the dome the noble Clncin- JU8t a transportation of real 'eet long, feet high, 44 inches wide, been Injured nor has any of his pas- It was while engaged In this pas- natus, and I have been laughed at comfort and enjoyment.

The landing gear Is fitted with the sengera been hurt. senger and express business that he when I suggested that, in my belief, there, too, there is an un- latest type shock absorbers. "Cracked up a couple of machines, began to think out an airplane after Cincinnati was destined by the very )mtcd right-of-way for the asking The construction ls all-metal, be-though," says Halpin, "because of his own Ideas of what a real plane logic of its situation, to be the air n0 crowding, nor cross traffic to run inff made up of welded tube steel, sleet, but a machine more or les. Is should The "Flamingo" Is the re- capital of America." i'nto and no expense of road bed up- covered with sheet duralumin. It ls a small matter ln these days when suit of Halpln's dreams while cruls- Which would Indicate that Halpin kecp or danger frora 8preading rails, fireproof, rustproof and weatherproof, airplanes are beginning to All the ing around over the Great Lake, to- tne of Cincinnati's newest citizens.

I The 8trUcture of the modern airplane The cabin Is insulated to make it two years. also one of iU most enthusiastic. as safe aa any railway bridge and soundproof. Halpin is President of the Halpin So he came to Cincinnati burdened "Tom" Is as full ot aviation facts far more rel)abIe than a loco- The cabin is fitted with toilet and Development Company, which built the down with data, facts, draw- as the sky is full of o.one. All sorts mot, or steamship engine, washroom facilities au-metai iamingo piun3 recently mgs ana plans on ana aooui air- or sclentilic aerial -data ooze out or exhibited at Embry-Riddle Field.

He planes. He came to Cincinnati "Modern passenger planes are muf- A baggage compartment for 00 fled as well, so that the terrific roai pounds of mail or express ia In rear of the war time plane, la absent, .0 0f passenger cabin, much ln fact that we use a siren a. Five deeply upholstered chair, pro-a landing signal. Engines are lasting 50,000 miles between overhauls, which Continued Puge 19, This Sectlea WHY IS AN AIRPLANE? ls a "bug" on aviation; a student of because Well, let him tell how the industry once It was a game an air-minded man decided to make, and has an experience rich ln every Cincinnati the basis of his develop- department of a-srial activity. ment operations.

Halpin was a mere boy when "Cincinnati is the logical air cen- UNiTEO 8TA'ES' OF AMERICA 223 pilots Identification card I HALPIN EXPLAINS. "An airplane is ncthlng more than a large kite, held up by the force of the wind. A kit 3 is dependent on a wind for flight; the airplane makes its own; create, its own cyclone, and then rides on it like a witch on a broom. Th) pull of the propeller takei th3 place of the pull on the kite string, and the most efficient plane is tba one that will carry the most loa I with the least pull on the string or, rather, propeller. "There is only one requisite for flight, and that is that the wings or surfaces have their center of weight exactly at the point where the air support, them.

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