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...woman has announced plans for spectacular solo flights?which have never materialized. Hence, last week, the British Empire and then the world at large became aware with some astonishment that Amy Johnson, 22, golden-haired secretary, graduate of Sheffield University, was performing a prodigious feat in her flight from Croydon, England, toward Port Darwin, Australia...
...Fokker monoplane, accompanied by pilots, secretary and valet, he has pleasure-jaunted some 130,000 mi. through Europe, Africa, Asia and the U. S. Last week he arrived in San Francisco aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru with the plane and crew which had taken him 6,000 mi. from Croydon, England to Osaka, Japan. Simultaneously, Sun readers tasted the Burton Holmes influence of Publisher Black's peregrinations. Six of the Sun's eight front-page column-tops were devoted to Indian riot and Burmese earth-quake.* No special foreign correspondents contributed these news stories; but spread across four...
...Croydon, England, cat show, one H. C. Brooke exhibited a cat which was completely redhaired...
...world's four worst heavier-than-air accidents: December 1924, Imperial Airways plane, at Croydon, eight killed; January 1929, U. S. Army plane at Royalton, Pa., seven killed; December 1928, at Rio de Janiero, 14 killed; March 1929, Colonial Airways, sightseeing plane, at Newark, N. J., 14 killed...
...contracts to design airports, architects at the Architectural & Allied Arts Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, April 22), secured a day last week to express their ideas. Naturally they warned against too precipitate airport building. Aviation still does not know what it requires in fields. Bad example is England's Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular...