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...Imperial Government, repudiated by the Soviet, was due for another airing. Even the Red Army was fairly peaceable last week. For weeks past two Moscow military factories have devoted their energies not to engines of death but to a colossal 25,000-cubic-meter gas bag. The balloon and its aluminum gondola was finished last week, only waiting good weather to attempt a stratosphere flight...
...Balloons. Seven vast balloons surged at moorings in Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds Field. Seven brace of aeronauts prepared to mount them for a tussle with the winds. A gust ripped the German entry of Fritz von Opel & Erich Deku. The other six rose fulsomely to strive for the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race trophy...
...Mich., about 225 mi. from Chicago, Dr. Erich Koerner & Richard Scheutz, Germans, descended into a watery ditch. At Albion, Mich., about 213 mi. from Chicago, Louise and Eleanor Hall, daughters of an Albion College professor, were summoned to interpret for two for- eigners who had come down in a balloon: Georges Ravaine & Georges Blanchet, Frenchmen...
...Orman & Frank A. Trotter (U. S.); Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. Settle (last year's winner) & Charles H. Kendall (U. S.) who wirelessed that they were approaching Lake Huron; Philippe Quersin & Martial van Schelle (Belgium); Captain Franciszek Hynek & Lieut. Zbigniew Burzynski (Poland). A steamer sighted an unrecognized balloon over the Straits of Mackinac...
When R. Jordarki Kuparant made the first emergency parachute jump in 1880 when his balloon caught fire over Poland, he was a hero. So was U.S. Captain Albert Berry when he made the first test parachute jump from an airplane in 1912. Since 1919 552 flyers have bailed out with parachutes, left their ships to rocket wildly to earth. A notable fall in this rain came in 1919 when the airship Wing foot Express burst into flames while flying over Chicago's business district. The two pilots parachuted away. The Wingfoot Express crashed through the skylight of Illinois Trust...