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...Francis C. Chadwick of Ardema, N. J. went out for an airplane ride with his son Stewart. Over Asbury Park, he leaned out of the cockpit to see what the famed resort looked like from a height of 1,000 feet. His spectacles fell from his nose. Next day the same spectacles, undamaged, were returned to Mr. Chadwick by Arthur Van Brunt, on whose Asbury Park farm they had fallen...
...pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
...America right, Alfred Loewenstein, wealthy Belgian capitalist recently arrived, bought a ten-passenger Fokker cabin plane last week for $55,000. Arriving in Philadelphia on its first hop, he jumped excitedly from the cockpit, ran so close to one of its three whirring motors that his derby was knocked sideways, sat down to think things over...
...Eyre reached for his map, missed it; it slipped into a corner of his cockpit. Two thousand feet over Essex, England, he undid his safety straps and reached again. Unintentionally he pressed the control stick forward. The plane stalled with a start and an astonished flier found himself catapulted into midair. With presence of mind he pulled his parachute cord, landed unhurt, lighted a cigaret, and addressed a gaping rustic: "I wonder where my kite's gone...
Within the cockpit, heaters and oxygen bottles to preserve life on levels where no life exists naturally...