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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir...
Rogue & Gull. With a tale of having flown for the British Royal Flying Corps in Italy and of being a Carter of Cartersville, Ky., one Robert A. Carter, 32, intriguing fictionist, became managing editor of John B. Kelly's air-fiction magazine Wings. He "wrote" good stories which Mr. Kelly gladly published. But one was a word-for-word steal from another "air" magazine, Air Trails, whose publisher complained. Last week roguish Mr. Carter was in jail for confessed fraud...
...these stupendities the present "biggest" planes already successfully flown are as hawks to eagles. They were designed by Claude Dornier,* Hugo Junkers, Adolph Rohrbach and Gianni Caproni respectively. (A German engineer, probably one of the three aforementioned, is the consultant on motive power for the U. S. ships.) Measurements of their "biggests...
...Club plane was flown to Boston from Wichita, Kansas in October after it had been purchased. In that time it established a flying record of 1400 miles in 15 hours flying time...
This week-end the Flying Club is undertaking its first cross-country flight of the season. The plane, piloted by R. Gilmor '31 and G. Rand '32, will fly to the Aviation Country Club at Hicksville, Long Island, today and will be flown from there by other members who are spending the week-end on Long Island. The purpose of the flight is to provide experience in cross-country flying for qualified pilots, and to create an outside interest in the club and its activities...