Rocket PoweR, InteRstellaR tRavel and eteRnal lIfe
Rocket PoweR, InteRstellaR tRavel and eteRnal lIfe
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109 “Fuer grosses Aufsehen sorgten seine Versuche mit raketenbetriebenen<br />
Fahrzeugen und Flugzeugen, die der medienbewusste<br />
Fritz von Opel geschickt organisiert.” HRonline.de,<br />
Fritz von Opel/nachrichten/hr.<br />
110 New York Times, December 24, 1929.<br />
111 Cliff R. Towner to Geoffrey N. Stein, November 22, 1994.<br />
112 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, April 7 (continued on<br />
April 28), 1964.<br />
113 Quoted by Marvin, “The Wizards of West Second Street”.<br />
114 Marvin, “Misguided Missile”.<br />
115 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, June 1, 1964.<br />
116 In 1994, the Glenn H. Curtiss Museum at Hammondsport<br />
learned of a motion picture film showing the rocket car in<br />
operation. A check with the Curtiss Museum in late summer<br />
of 2008 revealed that no such movie was at h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
117 Marvin, “The Wizards of West Second Street”, manuscript<br />
version, p. 21. It is probably Osman shown st<strong>and</strong>ing with<br />
Hungerford in a photograph taken with the car that day.<br />
Marvin reports the day’s events were photographed, “showing<br />
the car both st<strong>and</strong>ing <strong>and</strong> in motion.”<br />
118 The clip identifies the co-driver as Charles J. Oswald of 532<br />
Decker Avenue. However, a check of city directories shows<br />
that address to be the Osman family residence. Charles A.<br />
Osman is listed in the 1934 directory as a carpenter residing<br />
with, apparently, his parents at that address.<br />
119 Cliff R. Towner to Geoffrey N. Stein, November 22, 1994.<br />
120 July 31, 1958 (“Tuesday [July 29, 1958] marked the 24 th<br />
anniversary of an event at Roulette which is perhaps even<br />
more significant today that it was in 1934.”). A h<strong>and</strong>-written<br />
inscription on the clip reads, “With our Compliments Daniel<br />
D. & Floyd S. Hungerford 11-11-1958”.<br />
121 Elmira Star-Gazette, July 2, 1935.<br />
122 Unidentified clip apparently from an Elmira newspaper in<br />
1936, this based on other data in the story, specifically references<br />
to Chemung County <strong>and</strong> Harry W. Laidler’s c<strong>and</strong>idacy<br />
for governor.<br />
123 Noted <strong>and</strong> illustrated in Special Interest Autos, no. 146,<br />
March/April 1995.<br />
124 Shirley H. Hyde to Geoffrey Stein, September 9, 1992. In<br />
another letter, November 2, 1992, Hyde noted that her “husb<strong>and</strong>’s<br />
brother patented a gun-type soldering iron in the<br />
early 1940’s.” Note references elsewhere in this paper to the<br />
Hungerford’s rocket-powered soldering iron.<br />
125 According to the 1935 directory, the Hyde family resided at<br />
1164 West First Street while the Jennie L. Hopkins <strong>and</strong> the<br />
two Hungerford women were at 1160 West First Street.<br />
126 According to a Southside High School class of 1947 website,<br />
Towner was a member of that class.<br />
127 Cliff R. Towner, to Geoffrey N. Stein, November 22, 1994.<br />
128 Towner to Stein, November 22, 1994.<br />
129 McCann to Stein, July 19 1994. McCann said her father, who<br />
died in 1935, worked for engine manufacturer Henry<br />
Kleckler in Bath prior to working for Curtiss. McCann’s<br />
mother’s brother, Harry Genung, also worked for Curtiss as<br />
chief financial officer.<br />
130 A letter from Daniel Hungerford on August 26, 1966, refers to<br />
“Ed & Helen”. The current author suggests the recipients<br />
were Erwin D. French <strong>and</strong> Helen E. Heckman French, who<br />
had married after the deaths of their first spouses. Erwin <strong>and</strong><br />
Helen French in the 1950’s lived in Horseheads. Later the two<br />
moved to eastern Massachusetts, where she had been married<br />
<strong>and</strong> lived with her first husb<strong>and</strong>. Additional discussion<br />
of the Hungerford letter is noted in other areas of this book.<br />
131 George Mapes in telephone conversations with Geoffrey<br />
Stein, July 23 <strong>and</strong> 24, 2008. Stein’s notes were revised on<br />
August 5, 2008, after Mapes reviewed Stein’s initial record.<br />
While Mapes said he had the rocket car for his second,<br />
1947–1948, year at Champlain College, a photograph he supplied<br />
of him with the car at the college is marked “April 3,<br />
1947”.<br />
132 Robert M. Boyles, Before I Forget (unpublished (?) autobiography),<br />
no page numbers.<br />
133 Robert Boyles via telephone to Geoffrey Stein, July 31, 2008.<br />
134 Quoted in the Page column published on September 4, 1994.<br />
135 Shirley H. Hyde to Geoffrey Stein, September 9, 1992.<br />
136 Igor Spajic, “1929 Hungerford <strong>Rocket</strong> Car Part 2”, Restored<br />
Cars , Number 140, May-June 2000, p. 14<br />
137 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, June 8, 1964. Farrell’s<br />
letter to Hungerford was written from Kenmore on February<br />
11, 1942. Hungerford also wrote on the Farrell letter “At present<br />
Some where in the west[?]”.<br />
138 Undated (probably 1964) Hungerford notes on an undated<br />
manuscript rejection letter from Liberty Weekly. Hungerford<br />
further noted “Material referred to above was written <strong>and</strong><br />
forwarded to Liberty Magazine by Joseph R. Farrell, Jr.”<br />
139 Thomas E. Byrne, Chemung County 1890-1975 (Elmira, 1976),<br />
p. 73.<br />
140 Daniel D. Hungerford to Keith Marvin, May 28, 1964.<br />
32 Daniel <strong>and</strong> Floyd Hungerford: <strong>Rocket</strong> Power, Interstellar Travel <strong>and</strong> Eternal Life, by Geofrey N. Stein