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Familiar to U. S. aviation enthusiasts is the collection of aerial warfare photographs exhibited the past three years by a Mrs. Gladys Cockburn-Lange, reputedly the remarried widow of a British Royal Flying Corps officer shot down in France. The pictures, some 60 in all, are amazing views of British and German planes in close combat. A few show such spectacular views as two planes colliding in midair; a German pilot falling from his flaming plane; most extraordinary of all, a British plane losing its wings as its pilot looped in exuberance over a victory...
According to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange the pictures were taken by her late husband with a camera mounted in the cockpit of his plane and operated by a shutter attached to the machine-gun trigger. She has refused to tell her husband's name because, she says, his superior officer is still in the R. F. C. and might be punished for permitting the pictures to be taken "against army regulations...
...years ago Sportsman Pilot began publishing a series of the prints, dropped .them when the editors suspected their authenticity. Last autumn Mrs. Cockburn-Lange sold a set to Illustrated London News which printed striking full-page reproductions for several weeks. Thus publicized for the first time among British airmen, the Cockburn-Lange pictures aroused a controversy over their legitimacy finally aired in the issue of The Aeroplane which reached the U. S. last week...
Scotch Andrew Cockburn, chief engineer of the Mauretania that held the Atlantirecord for 22 years had one consolation...
Docket number 116 is the Seavey Club (Brun, Koldstein) versus the Cockburn Club (Frisinzano, Galewski). The meeting will be at 63 Wendell Street with D. V. Burstein 2L as chief justice