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...Rome. The distinguished company gathered about the air leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen...
...Alaska on a snow-covered field just outside of Fairbanks, with its railroad and clustered wooden buildings, two Fokker monoplanes were finally assembled last week. Captain George H. Wilkins, leader of the U. S. aero expedition which is to fly over the Polar blindspot to Spitsbergen (TIME, March 15, SCIENCE), called to his aides. They were Major Thomas G. Lanphier and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson, the pilots, and A. M. ("Sandy") Smith. All was set for the first tests. But Captain Wilkins would not commence until the crowd of spectators-newspapermen, townsmen and women of Fairbanks-dispersed. He was afraid...
Died. Palmer Hutchinson, 28, correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, while "covering" the U. S. Aero Expedition; hit by an airplane propeller at Fairbanks, Alaska. (See THE PRESS...
...Claude Grahame-White, famed British aero-engineer, is widely known as an international yachtsman, a minor big-game hunter, and a member of the famed Eccentrics' Club of London. His marriage in 1916 to Ethel Grace Levey, divorced wife of George M. Cohan, has resulted in making his villa at Palm Beach, "Miraflores," the Mecca of numerous vacationing thespians. Hence there were many who rejoiced last week at Mr. Grahame-White's success in selling his famed Hendon Airdrome at London to the British Government...
Lolling at their ease amid the luxurious appointments of a ten-passenger Fokker airplane (see SCIENCE), Mr. Anthony H. G. Fokker, famed Dutch aero-engineer...