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...planes could brake themselves on the air and alight as abruptly as birds do by reversing the thrust that gives them flight, aviation would be vastly safer and more convenient. To this end, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., radio and television expert, has been applying himself lately to discover a literal "air brake." Last week he announced success...
...matter of fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...
Reply to Coolidge. In Mexico City, President Plutarco Elias Calles called in newsgatherers who found his heavy, brown features alight. He pointed with honest satisfaction to the Spanish translation of a paragraph from President Calvin Coolidge's speech a fortnight ago before the United Press Convention in Manhattan. In their original English, the words of President Coolidge read...
...streaming in all directions with aircraft, like a big duckmarsh at dawn. Last week a new detail entered the picture, a chain of airplanes hooked up like railroad express cars. As the flying train passes over a city, the rear plane is uncoupled. It circles noiselessly to earth. Passengers alight. Their train has vanished down the sky to leave other passengers at other cities. At some terminal city the "locomotive" will descend. ... In an experiment at Karlsruhe, a motorless glider, manned by a pilot, was successfully towed aloft and cut free and brought to earth. Engineers predicted the rest. Needing...
These are situations which may mean much or nothing. To some, they will seem but flimsy foundations for the outbreak of war, but on just such frailties have wars been built. When once alight, the flame is hard to quench. Nothing could prove this more strikingly than the memories which this anniversary evokes. The wave of patriotism and of war-hysteria began in minor size, but, once started, it carried everything before...