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...Hanshue, president of the line; Earl Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail; Amelia Earhart. Cargo was eight sacks of mail. Well before noon the vanguard plane was past Camden (Philadelphia's airport of entry) and into the Alleghenies via Harrisburg. Here the pilots watched out for "dirty stuff," the fog, snow & sleet that had harassed Chairman of the Technical Committee Charles Augustus Lindbergh on his inspection tour two days prior...
Groping about in what dramatic Dr. Stephen Osusky of Czechoslovakia called "the most stifling fog of pessimism I have ever breathed," statesmen of the League of Nations found it desperately difficult last week to lay hold of any useful plan for dealing with present worldwide Depression...
...tubes at low pressures (5 to 10 millimetres, compared to 760 millimetres in the sea-level atmosphere). The gases are made to glow by an alternating electric current flowing through them. Because of the penetrating quality of the infra-red rays given off, neon lamps are used as fog beacons, airfield lights...
...last week at Lindbergh Field, San Diego, Pilot Ruth Blaney Alexander joked with reporters before starting on a one-stop speed flight to New York. Said she, "If I crack up, send me purple pansies; I like them best"?and took off into the swirling fog from the Pacific. A few minutes later she was dead. Her Barling monoplane Agua Caliente plowed into a hillside four miles north of the airport. Investigators searching the aviatrix' room found a note to (and revealing that she had been married three months ago to) Robert A. Elliott, Naval Reserve pilot. Excerpt...
...nonstop flight to Tacoma, Wash. Twenty-five hours later they were down again at Shiriyazaki, about 40 mi. from the starting point. Reports were meagre, but it was known that the City of Tacoma, an Emsco monoplane, had been in the thick of headwinds, rain and peasoup fog in its course over the Kuriles Islands. One despatch indicated that the plane was forced back by a broken exhaust pipe...