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Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Republic, last week inspected the eleventh annual French International Aeronautical Salon. He saw: French fighting planes, carrying machine gun nests fore & aft; U. S. airplane equipment, shipped by 20 firms, exhibited for the first time in a European aero show; German passenger and freight planes. He saw no German fighting planes, strictly forbidden by "he Treaty of Versailles...
Pennsylvania Military College Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd D. Aero...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh M. Aero...
...restaurant of the estimable Lin Hing, at No. 2, the Bowery, Manhattan, there assembled last week 15 notable Chinamen who proceeded to found the Chinese Aero League of America. President of the League Dr. Tien Lee Huang announced for next August a 10,000-mile air race from Dallas, Texas, to China, for a purse of $50,000 offered by Col. W. E. Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling...
Pierre Fronval looped 1,111 consecutive, uninterrupted loops, in 4 hrs. 56 min. at Velizy airdrome outside Paris. Each loop was followed by an official hammer blow delivered by an Aero Club representative upon a wooden table. A French notary legalized the record by stamping the Republic's seal upon the table. When the U. S. record of 1,093 loops in six hours was passed the crowd cheered as Frenchmen cheer champions. A Hispano-Suiza motor, the make used by Costes and Lebrix, and a Morane plane endured the strain...