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...Back in Manhattan last week, Captain Stevens told how he aiid Hinton, the latter suffering continually from malaria, flew from Manaos, on the Rio Negro, up the Rio Branco to the Rio Uraricoera, to the Rio Parima, to the Parima's source, hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning every few days to Dr. Rice with fresh pictures of what lay before him. A radio operator, John Swanson, also flew in the plane. His makeshift stations erected in the jungle effected...
Guns can hit airplanes. The Navy Department, last week, issued a re port on 42 practices against towed aerial targets, showed that 20 times the simulated bird-of-war had been caught by anti-aircraft fire. The targets, for physical reasons, were only one-tenth the size of a bombing plane and were flown at altitudes of 4,000 and 5,000 feet. Under these circumstances, the results were deemed highly satisfactory...
...dirigible Los Angeles swam through minor altitudes above the mid-Atlantic Coast, returned to its Lakehurst, N. J., berth. Chattering reporters casually gleaned from chattering air-sailors that the day had been spent in taking aerial photographs of 24 rum ships. Captain George W. Steele, commanding, admitted that orders to scout and photograph had been received weeks ago from. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Mr. Wilbur, at Washington, protested he knew no more than the newsgatherers...
...Aviator Lincoln Ellsworth, son of James W., the other by Amundsen. When he stated his plans, Amundsen announced that he would spend some 24 hours examining the Pole and its vicinity. He thought it might be possible to establish a fuel and food base at the Pole for further aerial exploration. From Kings Bay to the Pole is only a seven-hour flight. From the Pole south to Wrangel Island and Bering Strait is about 1,500 miles...
Deputy Andrea Torre, Budget Reporter, announced that Italy had, on June 30 last, 60 air force squadrons with 1,500 airplanes; and that, by next summer, she will have 90 squadrons with 2,000 machines. This makes Italy second only to France in aerial armaments...