Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-25 | Page 40 | Giant Curtiss Airplanes Arrive in Salt Lake to Make First Commercial Flights in Utah

GIANT CURTISS AIRPLANES ARRIVE IN 2ALT LAKE TO MAKE FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS IN UTAH i I- . - n 5i: - : " ' . 5 fi ' s?: Above -"-.v - 1$ UnloadinQ fusplageanci f i;3ti?ss ' . " "1, I W from freight car, SaltlaKp, Friday: . v . i) j. Side vi" of body of one of Wip great furtiss f)) 'v pianos, showing accomodation for j ... - -f' AiA . " " - ' ; si; . , r 53 ' ' - - . , f jRr: ' -yj ... s wt y-T itei ' r.; ., k ;41 M U;i)-i."(l!iir; tlio Riar.t Curtiss a'.rpln ucs which will 1)6 put in regular service in Salt Lake within a few days, v, lien nassDnjrer-cnrryisig flights will hepia. i'o r flying in j hi s count ry. T lie engines en-gines arc powerful motors of latest type, caiiablu of selling and mniulaiu-ing mniulaiu-ing a high s-iccd. 'The bodies of the I planes are fully eu,uipied i'ov t lie carry-j carry-j ing of ia.ssengcrs m perfect snfety, !;ind each macliine will be guided ly ;:n extn-rt pulo;. thoroughly famiUar wiih every detail of aifnlaue management. Mr. Gilmer announces that enough i'!i ghts have already been bonked by jiiini at his office. Kast First Soul li islrcct, to insure a solid week of flying, i l'aseuger- are rarried by appointment j only, according' In Mr. Gilmer, and 'much interest is being manifested in Ihe flights which will bo made here in 1 the near future. The first flighla will be limit eii, but as soon as plans are fullv matured regular schedules wilt be established between Salt Take and Gigdeu. Davis county. Antelope island land other points, in the slate. Three ;Muut I'". Curtiss airplanes, specially spe-cially tL'sijj n '.'d for carrying pa.sscugers, a rr v ed in Spit I ,a 1; e Friday, consigned to G. -I. Gilmer, and arc now being as-;:e)M'hic:, as-;:e)M'hic:, - re pa ni t o ry to siurtiug a s-oa-cioii of a i r oxen I'sions. f.iciD ena u t George Heck, formerly of the American army air si r ice, is chief pilot of the fleet , ami is su per v isitig (lie assembling of Ihe planer. As soon as unc of the "pla nes is ready to la lie the air, lacuteuaiit Beck will make preliminary pre-liminary flights over the city and make c xpcriiucut a 1 V'i tidings ui the'fields now 'under consideration. The field selected wiil be made into tin permanent lauding laud-ing and starling place for the air fleet and there will be built large modern hangars and the field properly equipped for its special purpose. The three planes .now in Sail. Fake are the first, units of what will bo a large fleet of passenger and freight-carrying freight-carrying airplanes, which will run on regular schedules be'wceu Salt Lake and various poi n 1 s of the stale. The f rt t or prise w i 1 1 be one of the f i rst for ce'tDUiu'c ia I f iy i n in the world , a n d W;li put Salt Fake on the map as an air elation, one of the first fo be regular! regu-lar! v established. flic pianos are of the latest Curtiss type, spc-ially tuaft n t'a c ' u red to order