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Cured. On the theory that shock sometimes relieves deafness, one D. Allen Dittman of Waynesburg, Pa. went aloft over Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, last week with Pilot Chester Pickup. At 10,000 ft. Pilot Pickup put his plane into a power dive. At 7,000 ft. the terrific pressure shattered the windshield, the glass cutting Pickup's face, momentarily stunning him. Unable to regain control, Pickup motioned Dittman to jump with him. Dittman, whose 'chute failed to open until he had dropped to 1,000 ft., landed on the roof of an open hearth furnace of Carnegie Steel...
Naval aircraft in bombing maneuvers used to fly at a safe altitude directly over their target, "lay their eggs," hope for a hit. Rarely were they rewarded. Newer strategy is to dive upon the enemy battleship, release the bombs, pull up sharply?the bomb continuing the path of the dive. Under this terrific strain, wings of an ordinary airplane would crumple like paper...
...Thomas J. Meehan and his family. Lawyer Meehan's son Francis, 26, told a story of how his father had eaten and cracked peanuts while Elihu Root was delivering a commencement address at Hamilton College in 1924. Francis Meehan said his father had "gone off to some drinking dive" during the commencement proceedings, but had returned in time to be "the cynosure of all eyes" and, "solely for the purpose of heaping indignity upon my mother," had cracked peanuts at Elihu Root...
...wounded in the right thigh, but sent the enemy down in flames. An entire formation of German Fokkers attacked him from all sides. Shot this time in the left thigh, he sent down two more planes. He lost consciousness for a few minutes, but recovered from his dive and singled out one of the following enemy planes. He sent it, also, to earth in flames. His left elbow was shattered now, and he fainted again. He regained consciousness, still in the air, and still under fire from attacking planes. Another enemy plane went down. Exhausted, bleeding, dazed with pain...
...womanly feat Elinor Smith. 18, flew a Bellanca at Roosevelt Field to between 30,000 and 32,000 ft. At the top she fainted, recovering after a sharp dive. Previous female altitude record: 23,996 ft., by the late Marvel Crosson...