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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuous airplane flight? How many days can a motor keep the plane going? The Army wants to know. So do motor and plane makers, passenger and freight carriers. One condition of such tests is that the plane be fueled in the air. An initial experiment took place at Boiling Field, Washington, last week. While a trimotored Fokker army transport flew at 80 m. p. h., a light refueling plane hovered above her and pumped down gasoline and oil through hoses, dropped food with a rope. The preliminary test worked. So the Fokker and a refueling plane...
Viola Gentry of Gentry, N. C.. dressed herself snugly at Roosevelt Field, L. I., last week, and took up a Travel Air plane, equipped with Siemens-Halske motor. She sought and gained something that has no real aeronautical importance-the woman's endurance record. Her time aloft alone was 8 hrs. 6 min. 37 sec., better than Lady Sophie Heath's 77-hr, record made earlier this year. Sixteen years ago, when planes were a novel and dangerous experiment, Ruth Law stayed up six hours. Neither the National Aeronautic Association or the Federation Aeronautique Internationale pays attention...
...lake town, viewed with alarm increasing numbers of commercial hydroplanes which dotted the sky above the city, but never descended. Enterprising Milanese therefore chose to build an artificial lake where seaplanes may alight. Surrounding will be hangars, offices, hotels. But already, like a huge glittering coffin, the oblong water field waits for hydroplanes...
...rugby match at Marmande, France, between Marmande and Bergerac, a Marmande player nearly succeeded in strangling Beausoleil, the Bergerac captain. As Beausoleil was dragged off the field unconscious, his tongue hanging out, foam on his mouth, onlookers shouted, "Well done! Kill...
Died. John Devlin, 82, "Diamond Man" (50 years or more of service) with Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. "Diamond Man" Devlin tutored famed London merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge in the rudiments of barter; once held Potter Palmer at the point of a gun, mistaking him for a burglar when he came to the store at midnight; helped Levi Zeigler Leiter carry out stock during the Chicago fire. Six other "Diamond Men" will be his pallbearers...