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...Gehlbach wrestling with the control stick, vainly trying it at every conceivable position," Commander De Witt C. Ramsey, the Navy's official observer, told newsmen afterward. "Using an old pilot's trick, he even stood upright in the cockpit, hoping the wind pressure on his body would right the plane. Finally, at 2,000 ft., with the earth rushing at him 200 ft. a second, he bailed out and descended easily while the plane hurtled into a nearby pine tree...
...John have loved to be with us?" The two passengers had tickets for all six seats in the plane, explained that four friends were expected. The friends never arrived. After the take-off the girls complained of a draught, asked Pilot Kirton to close the door between cockpit and cabin. As he headed over the Channel in bumpy air, he opened the door again, looked back to see if his passengers were comfortable. The two girls were gone...
...Balkan frontiers against aggression by any Balkan State, and to punish any Balkan State which may join any State whatsoever which attacks a Balkan State. Unless they turn out to be scraps of paper, the Balkan Pact and protocols mean cast iron peace in Europe's inflammatory cockpit...
...were less revolutionary. Outboard motors this year will have electric starters. Smallest outboard in the show was a 24½-lb. Evinrude-Elto with 1½ h.p. ($55). Principal development in larger motors was V-drive construction, with motors mounted at the extreme stern to make more cabin or cockpit room. Interesting to many were three silent electric boats for anglers, 15-to-18 ft. long. Speed: 5-9 m. p. h. Price: $175-$750. One has a bow-rudder...
...Jimmy") Wedell in 1933 has long been the goal of a heavyset, square-jawed Frenchman named Raymond Delmotte. One day last week, after a year of trying, 40-year-old Pilot Delmotte made five more unsuccessful attempts. On the sixth try, with his fox terrier mascot "Tailwind" in the cockpit, he shot his Caudron Renault monoplane four times over a measured course at Istres, zipped so fast (321 m.p.h.) on one lap that he averaged 314.1 m.p.h. for the four, set a new record. To Pilot Delmotte, for his pains, the French Air Ministry promptly awarded...