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...planes. The planes must have a gasoline capacity of 1500 miles. They are now being selected by Lieut. Erik H. Nelson, who was engineer officer on the recent Alaskan and Porto Rican flights. Two points are certain. They will be equipped with Liberty motors (still the most reliable aero engine built) and will be of American design. The joy of victory in Macready and Kelly's transcontinental flight was sadly marred by the thought that they flew in a Fokker plane...
...higher temperature encountered on the Long Island field, gave the ship abnormal buoyancy and she rose unexpectedly from the ground. The enlisted men, when dragged a few feet from the ground, let go-as they are carefully trained to do. In his excitement, Private Aage Rasmussen, of the 62nd Aero Squadron, failed to let go; he was dragged aloft by the rope he was holding. He managed to swing this round his legs, and hung on. But not until it had reached a height of 400 feet could the crew of the TC2 cause the ship to descend by desperate...
Members of the Brussels Aero Club discussed changing the strict starting rule. Others favored abandoning the competition entirely...
Piloted by Edward Stinson, a pioneer aviator, with Charles Dickinson and Arthur Gray of the Aero Club of Illinois as passengers, a Junker metal monoplane made an all-night non-stop fight from Chicago to Mitchel Field, L. I. Flying steadily at 100 miles an hour, by moonlight to Cleveland, in total darkness thereafter, the plane completed the journey in eight and a half hours without the shadow of a mishap. This is a forerunner of the aerial sleeper. The 20th Century Limited serves the business man at present better than an airplane flying only by day, but to make...
...violent gale brought disaster to several of 20 spherical balloons entered in Paris for the Grand Prix of the Aero Club of France. Some were smashed against the walls of the Tuilleries Palace; others torn from their moorings with pilots on board are headed for Germany. It is feared that unauthorized landings will mean fines and imprisonments for the occupants...