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| | Charlie Levine and his flying machine |
 | | By 1926, he was a multimillionaire and when Wright Aircraft, the earliest major airplane manufacture, sought to divest itself of a new model Wright monoplane, the Bellanca, Levine snapped up not only the plane, but the services of its designer, an immigrant Sicilian, Giuseppe Bellanca, and its pilot, Clarence Chamberlin. |
 | | Columbia Aircraft was a tall, lanky, pilot from St. Louis named Charles "Slim" Lindbergh, who offered to buy the Bellanca monoplane for a proposed solo flight from New York to Paris. |
 | | Levine, whose bravery bordered on foolhardiness, was not perturbed by the aircraft's aberrations. |
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