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However uninspiring, the 280 m.p.h. mark earned an additional $1,135 for Roscoe Turner, the able, gaudy flyer who collected $5,050 last fortnight by winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Last week his Wedell-Williams racer flashed off a 249 m.p.h. lap downwind...
...their fuel low. At 9:30 p. m. the Seafarer turned in for the airport at Bridgeport, Conn., 60 mi. short of Floyd Bennett. It buzzed low over the field but instead of heading into the wind, only safe way of taking off or landing a plane, it came downwind, zoomed aloft again. The field manager hopped into a plane, tried to lead the Mollisons to earth by making a landing into the wind in the floodlights. It was no use. The Seafarer, after circling wretchedly six times, stuck to its curious course, inevitably overshot the field, crashed...
...Harvard freshman was killed, involved the infraction of two primary fundamentals in which student pilots are drilled, which was the cause of his undoing. In the first place he had neglected to fasten his safety belt which would have no doubt saved his life since he insisted in landing downwind. For more than a half hour, according to his log record, the pilot has attempted to land his ship after he noticed his engine was not functioning properly. He tried to land in three different fields, and failing each time, attempted to stretch his glide on the third try into...
...then from the dreadnaughts (eleven strong, in three columns, led by the Texas),* finally from the 33,000-ton aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the presidential salute of 21 guns per ship plus the "Star-Spangled Banner" by each ship's band, came muffled from a mile away downwind. Alert at first, then seemingly lost in thought, the central figure stood with his fedora hat on during most of the spectacle. He did not reply when white-whiskered old Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, soon-retiring Chief of Naval Operations,* ejaculated as the dreadnaughts passed: "I tell you those ships...