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Business was slow the last year of the Civil War but Truckson La France of Elmira, N. Y. had an idea. He put on his best bowler and went to call on the rich Diven family. "I've perfected a rotary fire engine," he announced. "I want money to make it with." With a snort Old Man Diven gave him the money. Inventor La France made his first fire engine in an old brick house, sold it to Elmira. It was enough to scare the horses, but it had two lines of hose and only one weakness. The cams...
Chief rival to Elmira, N. Y. as a U. S. soaring centre is Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There last week, in the course of a 10-day meet of the Soaring Society of America, two gliders flying in formation rose to 6,500 ft., broke the U. S. record of 6,233 ft. set last summer at Elmira by Richard Chichester du Pont (TIME, July 9). Pilots of the two gliders were President Warren Edwin Eaton of the Soaring Society and Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite. World's altitude record for motorless planes is held by Austria...
...expand U. S. airmail mileage some 15,000 miles, at an annual cost of $1,332,938. He added twelve new round-trips daily to established domestic airmail routes. He extended air mail service to five new cities by authorizing stops on existing runs at Providence, New Haven, Elmira, Scranton, Youngstown. He introduced airmail to the Hawaiian Islands by authorizing Inter-Island Airways, Ltd. to carry mail between Honolulu, Lihue, Hilo and Wailuku...
...bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society of America closed last week...
...Back in Elmira Dick du Pont took off again, climbed 6,500 ft. for a new U. S. altitude record. Previous record (4,780 ft.) was made by O'Meara in 1932. World's altitude record (8,494 ft.) is held by Robert Kronfeld of Austria, which, with Germany, has long led the world in the art of soaring. Developed in Central Europe after the War because of treaty restrictions on military aviation, gliding has only recently come into...