DEWEY AIRPLANE COMPANY
 

 
 
BE READY WHEN YOUR
COUNTRY CALLS

Prepare Now for Active Service,
Learn the Inside Secrets of Aviation,
And Command Big Pay.

 
Learn how to make and fly aeroplanes in a school where planes
are made my Men Who Know How to Make Them.

     We teach you business from the ground up. Our students receive actual factory training in working side by side with skilled mechanics and instructors. Our practical, systematic, simplified system of instruction enables you to qualify as an Aeroplane Mechanic or Pilot in two months if you properly apply yourself. We not only teach you the theorectical knowledge but help you work out your problems direct in our large factory.
 
The Call is for Men, Men, Men----Men Skilled in the knowledge of
the fundamental principles of aviation----Men who can
work with both their hands and their heads.

     If you have a common school education you can qualify for immediate service and quick advancement.
     Now is the time to learn how to fly. In a few years hence the government will have thousands of jobs for men skilled in aviation. When the war is over the aeroplane will become as common as th automobile is today. And the man who learns the business now will be ready for the big profits that are to come.
Brochure from the collection of Lester Bishop
Courtesy of David Balanky
 

 
 
Billy Parker
Lester Bishop
 
  DEWEY NUMBER 1---The first machine built in our factory. Billy Parker has made more than three hundred flights with this machine without a simgle mishap. Many of these flights were for great distances over very rough country. On one occasion a distance of two hundred miles was covered in one hour and twenty minutes--a speed of more than one hundred and fifty miles an hour.
DEWEY NUMBER 2 WITH AVIATOR BISHOP AT THE WHEEL
 

 
 
Dewey Ad
Clipping
 
 
Flyer, 4 1/2" x 10"
Collection of Lester Bishop
Courtesy David Balanky
News Clipping, unidentified
Collection of Lester Bishop
Courtesy David Balanky
 

 
 
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