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...France, the two nations who were to challenge England's possession of the Cup, announced that they would be unable to participate in the races unless they were postponed for six months. Both gave as reasons bad weather, ill luck and loss of pilots and machines. The Royal Aero Club consulted the contest rules and announced that no such postponement was possible, that England's planes, unofficially reported to have flown faster than 400 m.p.h., would hold speed trials of their...
Married. Mrs. Lena P. Curtiss, 51, widow of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon who died last year; and H. Sayre Wheeler, 39, Mayor of Opa Locka, Fla., President of Curtiss-Aero-Car Co. (bus-type trailers, built like an airplane cabin), onetime associate of Pioneer Curtiss; in Atlantic City...
...expedition, sponsored by the International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic by means of Aircraft (abbreviation: Aero-Arctic) has a threefold purpose: 1) search for new land beyond Novaya Zemlya, hitherto unexplored; 2) study Arctic meteorology for its effect on weather the world over; 3) study ice conditions for their effect on oceanography in the northern hemisphere...
...matters ran for three days until Publisher Frank A. Tichenor of Aero Digest arrived on the scene as mediator and persuaded explosive "Tony" to withdraw as spokesman in favor of more rational James M. Schoonmaker Jr., president and general manager of General Aviation Corp. (Fokker organization). Outcome of the final conferences, attended by officials of the transport lines affected, was this program...
...Hards. To encourage popular flying, the Aero Club of France canvassed its first 100 pilots, found 75 of them living, many engaged in active flying. Among them: Santos Dumont, the Farman brothers, Breguet, Bellenger, Dubonnet, Louis Bleriot, holder of pilots license...