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...ground in Idaho. Less than a week later another boy, with ice on his wings, fell in Ohio. Next day an engine failed over Long Island Sound: one drowned, two injured. At Cheyenne two died when a spitting motor sent a plane into a spin after the takeoff. Another flier broke his neck in an Ohio snowstorm. Engine failure killed a pilot in a Daytona Beach takeoff. Eight days later another plane went into a spin at Cheyenne. Bad weather crashed a flier in Iowa; a pilot, lost in a thick Pennsylvania fog, jumped at too low an altitude...
First speaker was a junior member of the House, Lieut. Rupert Brabner, a Navy flier on leave. Making his maiden speech and drawing on his personal experiences in the Mediterranean, Flier Brabner pulled no punches...
...developing the suits, a Flying Fortress crew last winter flew 10,000 feet up over Alaska in -30° weather, dressed only in long woolen underwear through which electrical coils were woven. The new suits are lighter and cheaper than the sheepskin garments now used, and they leave a flier nimbler at his controls and guns. Heat can be adjusted for outside temperatures from 70° to -60°, can be increased to protect injured fliers from shock and pneumonia. General Electric analyzed the electrically heated uniform of a German flier shot down over England, found it so inefficient...
Died. Prince George Valentine Bibesco, 61, pioneer flier; in Bucharest. He was the 20th man to receive an international pilot's license, commanded the Rumanian Air Force in the Balkan war of 1913, bombed his own country's oil fields for the Rumanian general staff as an ally of Britain in World War I. For the past eleven years he had been president of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale...
...Newfoundland, the Navy chose a long-range patrol officer, Commander Gail Morgan, who now commands a unit (Patrol Wing I) of big flying boats. Along with their flying watchmen, these planes can also carry bombs or torpedoes for attacking enemy ships. Assigned to Bermuda was a close-in combat flier (Lieut. Commander Robert F. Hickey), who now heads a group on the aircraft carrier Ranger (fighters, torpedo planes, scout bombers...