July 24, 1974 (8 pages)

nevapa county NIE (T Ser: 1g. the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley: «ed Dog. Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al, 2 : Sranitevi , E ¥. Grass Falley. ae ‘ » Gle BYP Fy 4 ; . Se . Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North peli 3 Tae ee Humbug. Relief Hill, Kn ashington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill. Peardale, Summit City. Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Pg . Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gotd Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, illow balley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport. Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. cain a VOLUME 49 __ ~ Wednesday, July 24,1974 A 1922 invention By Phyilis L. Smith In June those ‘‘in the know”’ “flying field’) is well known hereabouts._-But, when you watch the flights. of helicopters, vertical flight. He was ultimately selected to head up a project to supply the U.S. Army Flight Service with a workable model of “the first Americanmade r.” One Ivan Eremeeff, about whom little has been written, was hired as his assistant. ° De Bothezat insisted on the and it took something like $200,000 to build the ‘crazy looking flying ship’’.as. one newspaper reporter described it. The first flight was made with a proud and excited Col. Thurman H. Bane at the controls and it lasted just one minute and 42 seconds and reached the surprising altitude of six feet off solid earth! Bane apparently deserved the description of ‘‘Master Of MeCook” with which he was tagged by Maurice Holland, a McCook researcher. And that pioneer. serial photographer pictured him as a ‘meticulous officer with a skeptical show-me attitude, just the kind of CO needed for a field where everyone was busy chasing the future. Tall, bushy-haired with a Jong strong face and a dab of a mustache, he liked people who were doers, providing they had ught things out.” ’ “At the time that . this first was accepted by the Army Air Service, the United States was the only major world power not actively involved with experimental helicopters.and it was Col. Bane who had worked the miracle of persuasion necessary to get the government to agree to its building. But despite numerous altitude, endurance and speed records finally established by the advance made at McCook Field, legislated appropriations The whirly-bird’s ‘were drastically cut. Bane finally got sick and tired of appealing for a larger budget avenues ~— of aviation. So he retired from. the Army only a few weeks after making a truly memorable flight in a helicopter.an aircraft much later to be called “whirly-bird.” ‘ Bane died from the effects of a brain tumor in New York on February 22, 1932.but not before he had turned the world of aviation eyed down and inside out with his demands for improvements, bigger and better aircraft of all kinds and the origin of the famous West and still known as Pan American Airways. Shortly after his death, the U.S. Air. Services magazine . that “the imprint of Col. Bane’s life on the American Aviation industry. will not soon be forgotten”..but, ironically enough, today most of his work is unremembered and a recent communication from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, stated ‘we know of no exhibits in this area honoring his memory nor of any monuments.” commerical : 10 Cents A Copy irth QUEEN CONTESTANTS for the annual Nevada County Horsemen's Rodeo are, from left: Shirley Savely, Jane Cooley and Cindy Heyne. Crowning of the queen will take place prior to the rodeo next Saturday night. yD OlNaRVEoVS . ytesé } b LS * & y © > > ee eS e of gS c Ee # eo 2s a S 2 ej ae oe An 4 oe) aA

nevapa county NIE (T Ser: 1g. the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley: «ed Dog. Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al, 2 : Sranitevi , E ¥. Grass Falley. ae ‘ » Gle BYP Fy 4 ; . Se . Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North peli 3 Tae ee Humbug. Relief Hill, Kn ashington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill. Peardale, Summit City. Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Pg . Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gotd Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, illow balley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport. Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. cain a VOLUME 49 __ ~ Wednesday, July 24,1974 A 1922 invention By Phyilis L. Smith In June those ‘‘in the know”’ “flying field’) is well known hereabouts._-But, when you watch the flights. of helicopters, vertical flight. He was ultimately selected to head up a project to supply the U.S. Army Flight Service with a workable model of “the first Americanmade r.” One Ivan Eremeeff, about whom little has been written, was hired as his assistant. ° De Bothezat insisted on the and it took something like $200,000 to build the ‘crazy looking flying ship’’..as. one newspaper reporter described it. The first flight was made with a proud and excited Col. Thurman H. Bane at the controls and it lasted just one minute and 42 seconds and reached the surprising altitude of six feet off solid earth! Bane apparently deserved the description of ‘‘Master Of MeCook” with which he was tagged by Maurice Holland, a McCook researcher. And that pioneer. serial photographer pictured him as a ‘meticulous officer with a skeptical show-me attitude, just the kind of CO needed for a field where everyone was busy chasing the future. Tall, bushy-haired with a Jong strong face and a dab of a mustache, he liked people who were doers, providing they had ught things out.” ’ “At the time that . this first was accepted by the Army Air Service, the United States was the only major world power not actively involved with experimental helicopters..and it was Col. Bane who had worked the miracle of persuasion necessary to get the government to agree to its building. But despite numerous altitude, endurance and speed records finally established by the advance made at McCook Field, legislated appropriations The whirly-bird’s

‘were drastically cut. Bane finally got sick and tired of appealing for a larger budget avenues ~— of aviation. So he retired from. the Army only a few weeks after making a truly memorable flight in a helicopter.an aircraft much later to be called “whirly-bird.” ‘ Bane died from the effects of a brain tumor in New York on February 22, 1932..but not before he had turned the world of aviation eyed down and inside out with his demands for improvements, bigger and better aircraft of all kinds and the origin of the famous West and still known as Pan American Airways. Shortly after his death, the U.S. Air. Services magazine . that “the imprint of Col. Bane’s life on the American Aviation industry. will not soon be forgotten”...but, ironically enough, today most of his work is unremembered and a recent communication from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, stated ‘we know of no exhibits in this area honoring his memory nor of any monuments.” commerical : 10 Cents A Copy irth QUEEN CONTESTANTS for the annual Nevada County Horsemen's Rodeo are, from left: Shirley Savely, Jane Cooley and Cindy Heyne. Crowning of the queen will take place prior to the rodeo next Saturday night. yD OlNaRVEoVS . ytesé } b LS * & y © > > ee eS e of gS c Ee # eo 2s a S 2 ej ae oe An 4 oe) aA