Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-09-27 | Page 10 | M'Cormick Abandons Aeroplane Experiments

I ABANDONS AEROPLANE EXPERIMENTS Chicago o Sept 26 Harold Halold Harold F. F McCormick's micks mick's costly experiment station at Cicero maintained for tot testing of ot improved Improved Im Im- proved pro methods of ot aeroplane construction construe construe- tion hae has been closed Failure of ot models models mod mod- els ets from which much has been hoped is believed to be mainly responsible for tor Mr r. r McCormick's move It Is estimated that at least has been spent in equipping end and nd operating the experiment station On one design n alone the machine which has become known as the umbrella um um- brolla brella plane constructed in In 11 Inthe the belief bellet that its Us stability could be maintained automatically was spent Another Another An An- nother n- n other machine dubbed the tho mustard plaster because of ot its Ha unusual form torm was also being tried out Neither of ot them fulfilled the hopes their designer had for tor them McCormick k Is a son law of John D D. Rockefeller