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Last week at Farnborough Aerodrome, the British Air Ministry tested a simple device to overcome the fog hazard in flying. A tethered balloon was floated 100 yds. above a 90-ft. layer of fog and one-half mile from the field. A plane was fitted with a trailing weight suspended by a few feet of wire. Approaching the hidden field, the pilot oriented himself by the known position of the balloon, put his ship into a glide of prescribed angle, leveled off when a red light on his instrument board told him the suspended weight had touched ground...
July 4-National elimination balloon races; at Houston...
Wilhelm, eldest son of onetime Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Germany, went up in a balloon with four companions near Konigsberg. Germany; was carried out over, descended into the Baltic sea, spilled out. A motor boat picked up two of the passengers. Wilhelm and the navigator swam ashore...
Hydrogen generating apparatus, 140 tons of crude chemicals, and a kite balloon capable of holding 35,000 cu. ft. of hydrogen (while it is being pumped into the Grafs gas cells), pyrofax (65%) and hydrogen (35%) to be mixed and stored in the Graf's ballonets as motor fuel, all were shipped last week to Pernambuco from Lakehurst...
...Great Falls, Mont., Art Leweke got rid of a hungry golden eagle by tying to its tail a toy balloon, a brass bell...