Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph from Colorado Springs, Colorado • Page 33

Alexander Planes Came Three Ways: For Medium and Low Altitudes By H. both the upper and lower wings jton, D.C. Gazette Telegraph Staff Writer About the time of the 1929 1 At time it was reported bleven of Colorado aviation markct crash Alexander Donahue said it would be pioneers were inducted into the me Aviation Hall of Fame of the wcre experiementing with a thp many more after that, the last Airlines (olorado Avialmn model called the Ale. nn(, bejng During his prpsidpnl, operations of Russia It was a daredevil career he broke his after more than 30 bunday, July 2, 1972 Colorado Springs, Colo. Gazette Telegraph- 7-C Chess Chomp Threatened With Being Blacklisted AMSTERDAM (AP) The but perhaps This would be in addi- will be considerable.

Matches president of the World Chess Fischer was seen Thursday tion to his share of the $125,000 will be played three to six days Federation has threatened night at New Kennedy purse and 30 per cent of the a week in a sports eran test pilot for Alexander American champion Bobby Fis- airport, hut Icelandic Airlines receipts from the sales of tele palace with seats at $5 each and conducted the original spin chcr with blacklisting following sajd he did not board its flight vision and film r'ghts already Ap(1 serjes expected to tests of the Eaglerock hp is bolding out for a to Reykjavik When newsmen to. )ast fw(j months He later joined Continental lbe 8ate receipts Jfrom tried to question him, his bod and retired as vice his of World The Icelandic federation was Series with Boris yguards fended them off. The next flight from Euwe said he didn't expect years Society on Nov.11 1970 Den- xander aareaevu career he broke ms after more ver. They joine i others who beauty, carrying five passen- right leg three left leg service. jeration president gers and it was to sell for and his back was broken Mclnanev was the salesDutch grandmaster.

said t0 Ay on the Jewish Sabbath, ation, 1932 while working with the executive who helped to build Thursday night that if the 29- between sundown Friday and cher became members of the Hall of Fame a year earlier. Among those selected for Ironically, he suf-Alexander Aircraft Co. into a American fails to ap-sundown Saturday membership in 19r0 were Don it out of a jast fractured limb top producer of aircraft. Famed pear Sunday for the start of the Informed sources M. Alexander and James F.

Do- spin it was not licensed i i by the five years ago nahue, both of Colorado government. Alexander said it Springs, the late J. Don Alexan- vvas finally developed to a point der, whose two sons, John and where it be put into a Don Colorado but the government Springs, and O. R. (Ted) Haue- believe it ter, E.

B. (Jcpp) Jeppeson, Da- The had a wing-span niel F. Kearns, Justin A. of 38 feet and length of Mclnanev, Dr. Noolie Mumey, feet.

Landing speed was 42 harles L. Rcavis, Thomas rnph, top speed 130 mph and it Shelton and Raymond M. Wil- cruised at 111 mph. It could snn- climb 640 feet a minute at sea At the time, of the 11 nomin- antj carry a pay j0a(j 0f ees, seven were still living. Don 570 lbs with fuel capacity of 40 Alexander has since died, gals, Was the first land based on Feb.

11, 1971. airplane ever built having ret- The Alexander brothers, J. ractable gears Don and Don founded the Alexander Aircraft Co. in La fa early 1320's and built I. Inin one commued the manufacture of the nation's largest manufac f'anes to ful1 time production of moving picture advertising films, surplus materials were used up on the production of gliders, of which more than 500 were made.

They sold at $375 each. reported seeking a compromise New in negotiations with Fred Icelandic Chess Federation of Dr. Max Euwe, the world fed- York to Iceland is tonight. But Cramer, former president of to meet Fischer's demand. He eration president and veteran Fischer in the past has refusedtthe American Chess Feder- added that it would have who is acting as Fis-igrounds for legal action against advance man.

The Ice-the American challenger if he jlanders said they have already show up Sunday, in Reykja- spent about $200,000 on prepa- like Mr. Fischer In while skiing at aviator Ben Howard taught him world chess championship in vik said that Fischer informed rations, and if they meet is- our chess said Euwe. Breckenridge. to fly and Mclnaney in turn in- Reykjavik, Iceland, he stands the Icelandic Chess Federation cber demand they cant break a good player but every Haueter, who was also placed structed many other famous to lose his rights to play for the that he wouldn't play unless he oven- day we are getting another ul- in the Hall of Fame, was a vet-pilots. world title only this time got 30 per cent of the gate The gate receipts probably timatum from him like turers of aircraft before the 1929 market crash.

As Don M. once told this writer, were born too The two brothers moved their plani Spokane, to Denver in 1923 and started producing planes in Englewood. The first Eaglerock, a bi-planc. Jimmy Donahue, 1814 N. Royer who helped the Alexanders establish their compa- was completed in 1925, and the was nown as a barns- chief test pilot, Joseph Ham- terming vv'ng walker and para- mer, took it up for the first ute iumper.

He got his first time in September of that year. fl-vin8 experience at his home A year and a half later, in Marshall, with the February of 1927, a young pilot iars'ial f1 lying Service, and ap- named Charles A. Lindberg air a11 the wrote to the Alexanders asking mid-west, making a total of 486 them if they could install a jumps. Whirlwind motor in one of their 1930, at the third planes, in place of the OX-5 Meet, in motors being used. He had tried Colorado Springs, Donahue set out one of their planes, and was an Obture parachute record enthusiastic about it and wanted JurnP- which was officially re- to use one in a trans-Atlantic the U.S.

Bureau of flight, but thought it should Standards, at 21,171 feet. He have a more powerful engine record tor seven years, for such a trip. He was out to was made from a trv for the $25,000 prize being Dwkheed-Vega monoplane pi loted by the late O. M. (Red) Mosier, then president of the Pikes Peak Air Commerce, Inc.

flight the offered for a non-stop from New York to Paris. Orders had piled up for Alexander planes; they were running behind and rather than break the line of production, which was averaging almost five planes a day, request was turned down. Had Jimmy jumped from an altitude of about 28.000 feet, falling the first 5,000 feet in an unconscious condition due to the lack of oxygen. It required almost a half request was turned down, nau to drjft ,0 earth- A I. Sol been.

Lindy might have he landed at Le Bourget Field in Jbbhcd. in a semi-conscious con- Paris in an Alexander of instead of a Ryan of St. on May 21, 1927. four miles east of the municipal airport. Souvenir hunters, who reached the site of the landing early, tampered Bv 1928 the plant at Engle- the official government wood was outgrown, so it was barograph carried by Donahue moved to Colorado Springs.

It it difficult for the exact films to be ascer- advertising the Eaglerocks. of which about 1,200 were made. The Eaglerocks were made in several models, depending on the type of motor supplied. They weighed 2,618 pounds, had a top speed of 114 mph and could land at 40 mph. Ceiling was 14.950 and service ceiling was 12,850.

It could climb at the rate of 720 ft. per minute. Prices for the bi-planes ranged from $3.250 to $5,597, depending on the motor used, which included the OX-5s, Hispano Suz as, Comets, Curtiss Challengers and Wright Whirlwinds. They could be purchased for $1.300 down and payments of $107.25 bi-lonthly. Alexander informed this writer that because the planes had been developed in this high altitude, those flying them at sea level experienced difficulty in getting them to would just go floating along above the landing field.

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