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...course covered 16 countries and three continents, required night & day flying over country perilous with jagged mountains, snake-infested jungles, deserts, hurricanes and typhoons. Toughest stretch was across the Syrian Desert where blinding sandstorms sometimes rise 20,000 ft. and huge kitebirds menace aerial navigation. Not much easier was the 2,210-mi. jump from Allahabad to Singapore, with its Bay of Bengal water hop nearly as long as the North Atlantic. To the participants in the race Lloyd's of London gave a 1-in-12 chance of being killed. Purely a long-distance speed race, the MacRobertson...
...plane of his own in Hell's Angels, became an aviation technical adviser for the cinema. In 1929 he organized Nevada Airlines, operated it successfully for eight months. But the obscurities of ordinary business held no attachment for Turner. While working for Gilmore Oil Co. as an aerial advertiser, he acquired a 450-lb. lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored whipcord breeches, Sam Browne belt, black riding boots and a gold...
Mildenhall Airport, England, Oct. 17--Twenty-one probable starters in the greatest air race ever known--the "Aerial Derby" from England to Australia--underwent weighing and checking tests today in preparation for the start at 6.30 a.m. Saturday...
...purchased in October a 90-horse-power Fairchild two place monoplane. This ship was used extensively by club members. It was taken to New York several times for weekends by men who were licensed pilots. In January of this year, the ship was equipped with skiis and used for aerial photography in the White Mountains. Later in the spring Beekman Fairbank '34, then secretary of the club, won two events in the Norwood Air Meet using this ship. Several men with no previous experience had their first flight training with the club and successfully obtained their licenses...
...theatrical producer; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. In 36 years he produced more than 200 plays (Mlle Modiste, Chin-Chin, Blossom Time, Sunny, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). In 1914 he took over Manhattan's big Hippodrome where he installed skating rinks, swimming tanks, staged extravagant spectacles with skating, diving, aerial ballets. Headliners who first appeared on the Hippodrome stage included Annette Kellerman, Anna Pavlova, Gaby Deslys...