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...progress of French aviation. Technical reports speak of a number of interesting features. The wing tapers from root to tip and has no external bracing. At its center it is seven feet deep, and contains within its cantilever structure the engines, the fuel tanks and the pilot's cockpit. Once the machine has left the ground, the landing gear itself disappears within the wing. In flight nothing will be seen but a vast wing; air resistance and fuel consumption will thus be reduced to an absolute minimum. The design may mark the culmination of many years' work...
...crash disastrously to earth. In an extremely sensitive altimeter designed by Arthur W. Uhl of Long Island City, condenser plates are placed on the wing tips in an oscillating circuit. The earth is itself a gigantic conductor and its proximity affects the circuit and warns the pilot through a cockpit indicator. Successful on test, this device may save many a life in such all weather work as that of the Air Mail...
When " Al" Williams went round the course he felt sleepy. On turning pylons, his brain refused to function for several seconds owing to the terrific pressure of centrifugal force. On the last leg he forgot he had finished and went around once again. When he got out of his cockpit, his legs had gone to sleep. But he forgot sleep, fatigue, grease, wind and dirt, when his chief Admiral Moffett slammed his own hat on the pilot's head and asked some one to "give the boy a drink...
...flying field near Schenectady, N. Y., John D. Smith, of Chicago, jumped at 2,000 feet with a parachute which failed to open. Entanglement in the landing gear of the plane checked his fall, but desperate attempts to climb into the cockpit were futile. The pilot with admirable presence of mind flew a few feet above the Mohawk River into which the parachutist jumped. But not knowing how to swim, he was rescued just in time from drowning - and probably gave no further exhibitions that...
...other features which have won for it the reputation of being the safest plane that the Navy ever flew. A speed of 65 knots can be attained in it. The Aeromarine has the pontoon beneath the lower plane which distinguishes it from the flying boat in which the cockpit is in the hull, and the motor above the pilots head. In the Aeromarine the engine is in front of the pilot...