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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Uiver left Amsterdam on a special Christmas flight to Java with three passengers, a crew of four, 54,000 pieces of mail. Between Cairo and Bagdad it encountered a violent thunderstorm, sent out an SOS. What happened to Uiver after that no man knows. When found, it was on its back, smashed to bits, burned to a crisp. Best guess was that Uiver had made an emergency landing at night, flipped over in a somersault and caught fire. Of 40 Douglases built to date, it was the first to crash...
...Airspeed Envoy monoplane Stella Australis (Star of Australia), an unprepossessing craft in which to attempt the hazardous flight from California to Australia. Her lack of power and last-minute patchwork of fabric, however, failed to perturb Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm, who had made the Pacific crossing in 1928 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in the Southern Cross. Said he: "I don't intend to get my feet...
...time Wiley Post flew Winnie Mae into the stratosphere last week he thought he climbed 48,000 ft. The second time, he thought he reached 55,000 ft. but had no way of telling because his altimeter froze at 35,000 ft. Not until the barographs used on the flights are checked will Pilot Post know whether he beat the world's airplane altitude record of 47,352 ft. held by Italy's Renato Donati. Because of the thin air and -70° temperature of the stratozone, Pilot Post had encased himself in a grotesque suit made...
United Air Lines made news last week when it celebrated its 20,000th cross-country flight. On that day all its planes were ceremoniously flown over their scheduled courses by pilots with more than 1,000,000 miles of air experience. Pioneer in long-distance night flying with passengers, United operates 23,000 miles of scheduled flights daily, carries more passengers than any other U. S. airline. Its midcontinent airway saw the first U. S. airmail service and was for ten years the only transcontinental air route. First airline to use planes built exclusively for mail & passengers. United likewise...
Through last week 1,000 men, women &children- nearly half the population of Geneseo-trooped down Main Street past the Normal Grill and Ulmer's drug store to the corner of Bank Street, then up a narrow flight of stairs to Publisher Sanders' tiny office. A Boy Scout was first in line. A 78-year-old town character named Pliny B. Seymour had himself fingerprinted "in case my memory should fail or something." A couple from the cannery brought their four-month-old daughter. The whole Rotary Club, including Representative Wadsworth & Son James Jeremiah ("Jerry") who sits...