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FROM THE ARCHIVEFeb 9, 1930·Washington, District of Columbia

BIG PLANES OR SMALL?

Scanned from Evening Star, Feb 9, 1930
BIG PLANES OR SMALL?
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Which Will Win Big Planes or Small BY ISRAEL KLEIN m DISCORDANT note rises out of the m symphony of aeronautical progress J to sound a warning against what t may be too optimistic a view of the practical possibilities of the air plane. It is a note as of the smashing of idols the cry of an iconoclast in the midst of a pleasant lulling satisfaction over the way aviation has progressed so far and the direction it is going. The man who sounds this discord is one of the greatest and most respected aeronautical engineers in the United States if not the world. He has lived and prac iced aviation ever since his early youth and has accom plished as much as any other aviation en gineer in the worldif not more.

He is William B Stout of Detroitautomo tive and aeronautical engineer whose name emblazons two successful air lines between De troit and Chicago Detroit and Cleveland and whose allmetal trimotored ships carry passengers mail and freight over many other air lines and for many a private individual and commercial firm STOUT as he is known throughout the automotive and aeronautical industry fe the aeronautical iconoclast. While.

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