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...streamlined, insulated "cape" over the pilot's cockpit to protect him from the terrific winds of high altitudes...
...thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth hopped hurriedly into the cockpit of The Spirit of St. Louis, headed for Nicaragua...
...nation's business will henceforth have offices in the air. Just completed are two Curtiss Falcons; standard army planes for observation and attack. In the observer's cockpit are fixed folding desks. In them will be prepared or studied reports, speeches, while Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, and the Navy's Assistant Secretary for Aviation, Edward P. Warner, are winging their ways to keep appointments...
...Canadian farmer with a team of horses tugged the wreckage of an airplane out of the St. Lawrence River. In the cockpit were found a watch and a pair of socks. A wing section, 13 feet long, washed up elsewhere. Of the flyers no trace...
From S-D-A, large letters on the cockpit and from the watch, the flyers were known to be Count de Lesseps and his mechanic. They had flown away to gather data for map-making for the forestry service. There had been fog. Both had had life preservers...