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Died. Margaret Phillips Mathewson, 23, wife of Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of the late, great baseball pitcher, aviation instructor at Hangchow, China; a fortnight after marriage, on her first flight with her husband; of injuries suffered when Mathewson crashed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong's amphibian plane on a Whangpoo River mudflat; near Lunghua, China...
...their Familia Volano, a big black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian, the Hutchin-sons-George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6-and a crew of four had hopped by easy stages to Labrador (TIME, Sept. 5), thence across Davis Strait to Greenland and down the coast to Julian-ehaab. Hopping off from there to the booming salute of a Danish warship, Pilot Hutchinson skirted the southern tip of the great island, headed north for Angmagsa-lik. His itinerary called for successive hops to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, England, Rome...
Shortly after turning northward, a bird struck a wing of the big amphibian. Airmen always think this is a bad augury. Halfway to Angmagsalik the party ran into a blinding blizzard that whipped up a nasty sea, blotted out the visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon...
...Hutchinson plane is a black-&-silver Sikorsky amphibian named, of course, The Flying Family with the Italian Familia Volano* painted on either side of the nose. Also painted on the fuselage is a white winged circle enclosing the heads of a man, a woman and two children...
Died. John Hunter, 26, one of the four brothers who set a world's airplane refueling endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec. in 1930; by decapitation; in Rosedale, Miss. Attempting to untie his amphibian plane from a dock, Flyer Hunter was struck by the propeller...