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...airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused a $10,000 offer made...
Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
...took a trip around the world, during which he was forced to eat carrots and monkeys while quarantined in the Philippines. He entered the Navy via Annapolis. His services to aviation include the invention of the bubble sextant (giving flyers an artificial horizon), the perfection of the sun compass and the drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours on May 9, 1926. Last week he hinted that his next exploit...
...following program will be given tonight at the Pops: Overture to "Norma" Bellini Air for String Orchestra, from the Suite in D major, No. 3 Bach Overture to "Leonore No. 3" Beethoven The Square and Compass Club Choir a. Hymn to Nature Beethoven b. The Lost Chord Sullivan "The Magic Flute," Overture Mozart Unfinished Symphony in B minor Schubert "Euryanthe," Overture Weber Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky
...instrument board of an airplane are also: an oil pressure gauge, gasoline gauge, thermometer (for motor temperature), turn-and-bank indicator, rate-of-climb indicator, altimetre, air speed indicator, compass, clock...