Word: albatross
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...grounds of an insane asylum at Ransom. Pa. the head farmer noticed his chickens scurry suddenly for cover. A hen hawk, he thought, must be about. Overhead he saw what looked like a huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society of America closed last...
...ridge sailed Richard Chichester du Pont, 24-year-old son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in his new sailplane Albatross II which he and Gliderman Hawley Bowlus had designed & built in California. Like a great flying fish, sleek in the sun, Albatross II soared out over the valley, circled back over the ridge, climbed higher & higher on a thermal current. By staying in the air five hours young du Pont would get his "D" license, held by only one other U. S. pilot, John K. (''Jack...
...from Elmira to within 25 miles of New York's Times Square. To attempt such a distance flight now with neither map nor parachute was a risky business. But the opportunity might not come soon again. Southeast, without a second thought, young du Pont pointed the nose of Albatross II. Skillfully he darted from cloud to cloud, hitchhiking on thermal currents. Over the rugged Alleghanies he soared in silence, flew south along the Susquehanna River. Over Scranton he ran out of clouds; dropped to 500 ft. Hot air over the city pushed him up again, enabled him to float...
From Sydney went Vice-Admiral Hyde of Australia which has bought and paid for such fine new war boats as the 10,000-ton cruisers Canbeera (Flagship) and Australia, possesses also the older and smaller cruisers Adelaide and Brisbane, the seaplane carrier Albatross and five destroyers...
...hours. To test his theory Dick du Pont invited the pilots, as his guests, to an informal meet centering at the Swannanoa Country Club near Waynesboro, atop the Blue Ridge in western Virginia. Last week this meet got under way. Besides Pilot du Pont in his new Bowlus sailplane Albatross there were August C. ("Gus") Haller of Pittsburgh, builder of Hatter-Hawks; Haller's pupil, Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., Warren Eaton, Norwich, N. Y. After feeling their way up & down the Ridge for a couple of days, the pilots went out for records. Mehlhose, in a Hawk, took...