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Charles A. Levine has learned to fly. The man who plunged the Columbia into a 17,000 foot nosedive at the most critical time in her transatlantic trip, then flew alone and unaided from Paris to London, demonstrated his ability last week at Curtiss Field in quest of a pilot's license. He landed at a mark with and without power, did figure eights and other evolutions. Dean Percy T. Walden, in charge of freshmen at Yale, appealed to the Yale faculty last week to forbid the use of airplanes to first-year students. The Yale Aeronautical Society protested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fliers, Flights | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...longest sailing yacht is Arthur Curtiss James's Aloha, 218 ft., noted above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down to the Sea | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Doubtless many famed yachtsmen failed to find time to examine the Sava- rona. Many of the greatest owners are yachtsmen only in spare moments. Arthur Curtiss James, philanthropist, proprietor of the tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down to the Sea | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

When hawks fight, that one wins which can tower fastest and highest to strike from above. Having learned that the same is true of fighting airplanes, the War Department has ordered some "Super-Hawks," capable of towering and fighting as high as man ever flew.* The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., commissioned to build five "Super-Hawks," last week issued some of their specifications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Super-Hawks | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Previous recipients: Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, Glen H. Curtiss, Gustave Eiffel (for research on the properties of the air in respect to flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Langley Medal | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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