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Near Sunbury, Pa. one night three other Army flyers in a disabled bomber dropped flares and went over the side, floating safely earthward as they watched the ship crash and burn. At Cheyenne, Wyo. an Air Corps Reserve pilot who might have bailed out when his motor died chose instead to risk a dead-stick landing, climbed unhurt from his wrecked ship...
...them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from a bomber. Each 'chute was red. white or blue, and each graduate had remembered to bring along a second colored chute which he released as he floated earthward. Fourteen other jumps during the day brought the total to 60, with no injuries...
...Bristol Pegasus radial motors whose propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...
...free of fatalities, but at one point the shocked audience thought it was about to witness one. A half-dozen Marine planes came screaming down upon the field in a formation dive. All pulled out of it except one. piloted by Lieut. Glenn M. Britt, which continued to shoot earthward at 300 m.p.h. About 250 ft. above the ground Lieut. Britt jumped clear, pulled his ripcord. His 'chute barely billowed open before he struck the ground, just after his plane crashed in front of the grandstand. Lieut. Britt picked himself up, hurried to a microphone, greeted the crowd: "Hello...
stars and clusters near the central line of the Milky Way. Hence he reasoned that outer space must also contain an extended cloud of particles, gas or dust Measuring star distances by the strength ot the light they send earthward astronomers have failed to allow for the light's absorption by this cloud...