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...above them early on the morning that Ames disappeared. Searching parties found nothing. Last week a boy, one Harry Dobson, 15, found Ames on top of a peak called Nittany Ridge, four miles east of Bellfonte. The plane lay in a tree, bottom up; the man dangled from the cockpit. He had been dead ten days. Pouches of mail lay scattered underneath. They were put on board a train...
...pelting roses, shouting greetings, escorted the pilgrims to the Navy Club, where a midnight banquet awaited them. This feast lasted well into the dawn, when newspaper photographers swarmed in to begin the new day with pictures. Sleepy though he was, Pilot Lincoln Ellsworth of Manhattan obligingly posed in the cockpit of the N-25, Rolls-Royce-motored seaplane which had carried the party back to Spitsbergen from a forced bivouac on the ice-floes 157 miles from the Pole...
...would lessen chances of losing-control. Grover C. Loening, famed aeronautical engineer, has suggested that crash-proof passenger cabins might be built, immune from injury no matter the height of fall. This may be too much to hope for. The code at least demands that all edges of cockpits shall be well padded and that the padding should be extended to cover the front, part of cockpit or passenger cabin against which the heads of pilot or passenger are likely to strike...
...lights illuminated the scene. The flight (2,670 miles) had been completed in 21 hours 48½ minutes. When the plane came to a stop, Maughan seemed unable to speak. His face was drawn, serious. His mates in the Army Air Service were quick to lift him from the cockpit and carry him indoors. Long and loud were the cheers...
...metal, as to be partially useless. The new instrument is an earth inductor compass, with no magnetic needle, but with a revolving electric coil placed in the tail of the machine-where it is undisturbed by any metal. The contact brushes are so arranged that a galvanometer in the cockpit, connected with the revolving coil, gives no reading when the plane is on her true course. In the 450 miles of blind flight, Barksdale and Jones were only eight miles off their course...