1917-1922 Collection of Frank Schober Courtesy of Margaret Schober Seaman, 3-23-06 Transcribed by Ralph Cooper |
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Courtesy of Margaret Schober Seaman, 3-23-06 |
| In 1917 I got a call from Alfred W. Lawson, Editor of Aircraft mag. asking me if I would like to go to Green Bay, Wis. to build planes for the airforce. We built the first training plane and Lawson flew it, but it was not accepted by the government. We then designed a second plane which was a beauty, far ahead anything that was built at that time flew beautiful and handled with ease. But the war stopped before the plane was accepted. |
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4. Mr. Lawson; 5. Mr. Savard; 6. Andrew Rasmussen, mechanic; 7. Harvey Cameron, mechanic; 8. Mr. L. Allison, Engineer; 9. Myself, Frank Schober; 10. Andy Surini; 11. John Carisi; 12. W. Smith, machinist; 13. H. Peck, tinsmith Collection of Frank Schober Courtesy of Margaret Schober Seaman, 3-23-06 |
| The engineers had been working for several months before the end of the war on a post war Curtiss . It was the first 22 passenger cabin airliner built and flown in the U.S.A. Sept. 1919 Milwaukee, Wis. to Boling? Field, Wash D.C. on which flight I was a passenger with 10 others. I was working for Curtiss Airplane Co. in Garden City at the time and got a few days leave to be with the boys from Lawson and make the flight to Washington and back home on the trains and on the job again at Curtiss where I worked on the NC Boats. |
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Left to right: Vincent Burnelli, Andy Surini, Frank Schober Collection of Frank Schober Courtesy of Margaret Schober Seaman, 3-23-06 |
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Working on Lawson plane Collection of Frank Schober Courtesy of Margaret Schober Seaman, 3-23-06 |
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Then one day, I got a telegram from Lawson in
So. Milwaukee to come back to build a new Airliner, much larger and three Liberty motors which took us almost a year to complete and
was wrecked on its trial flight. I went back to Brooklyn and got a job in College Point, L.I. with Cox-Klemen Co. working on a boat they
building for a party named Mayor which was a flop. |
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