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Three days after the Army started to carry the airmail, Lieut. Durward 0. Lowry of the 94th Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer...
...credited with doing a masterful job in whipping the Navy's air force into an effective fighting unit. After a year he was made a rear admiral, but in spite of his rank, dignity and grey beard, he was frequently to be found not only in the cockpit of a plane but also driving his second-hand Ford roadster...
...past four years Sir Charles Edward ("Smithy") Kingsford-Smith, Australia's air hero, has been making records between England and Australia. Last week he made a new one: 7 days, 5 hr. At Wyndham, western Australia, he dragged his weary frame from the cockpit of his small monoplane Miss Southern Cross, gave newshawks a gloomy account of as miserable a week as he ever spent. Said Sir Charles...
...Belgian Army major named R. van Rolleghem produced a miniature airplane fuselage composed of a secret material which looked like mica-coated asbestos. In the cockpit, in place of pilot & observer, he lodged two white mice. Then he ignited the fuel in the machine's nose. The terrified mice were not even singed...
...fierce fire beneath a full fuel tank made of his secret substance. Tank & contents remained intact. He put a box, containing a letter, into a fuel fire. The letter remained uncharred. Then came Major van Rolleghem's finale. He stepped into a boxlike affair supposed to be a cockpit. Gasoline was sloshed against the front wall and ignited. The whirling propeller of a nearby airplane fanned the flames to terrific heat, but they failed to scorch the major...