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While attending South Pasadena High School in the early '303 with Bill Bridgeman, five of us invested $1 apiece in the purchase of a 1914 Franklin. That he was without fear I had no doubts after he drove the other stockholders over a slight precipice into a haystack on the estate of the late General...
Compliments on your Bill Bridgeman article. I would like to make two minor corrections: I obtained an annulment, not he, in Honolulu in 1949. It was seven years later, not six. Odd, I know...
...PAUL ARSLAN (formerly Mrs. W. B. Bridgeman) Los Angeles...
Congratulations on your terrific article on Bill Bridgeman...
Rocket planes have flown higher; the Douglas Skyrocket piloted by Bill Bridgeman reached 79,494 ft. in 1951 (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). But since rocket motors need no air to breathe, they are considered in a separate class. They can fly under full power for only two or three minutes, and when trying for an altitude record, they must be dropped from the belly of a high-flying bomber. Wing Commander Gibb's Canberra took off from the ground in the normal way and stayed in the air for 61 minutes. At the top of its flight, its engines...