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...down to a steady schedule of festive welcome for its second detachment of transatlantic air guests-Heroes Byrd, Acosta, Noville, Balchen, Chamberlin and Levine. The last two arrived from Berlin via Austria and Czechoslovakia in their Bellanca ship, Columbia. The first four arrived hollow-eyed and shaken after their fog-ridden cruise, anxious night and wet landing in the America. In Paris they had difficulty mixing sleep with hospitality and with their natural inclinations to make the most of a great moment...
...Fog-shrouded lights which failed to guide Commander Richard Byrd to Le Bourget flying field would have been plainly visible had they been of the type recently invented. A row of these new lights would have been discernible for 20 miles as small but distinct red buttons, even through the heaviest fog...
...last week, claimed Inventor David Machlett, 26, of Long Island City, N.Y., Cornell graduate (1922). His device consists essentially in a hairpin-shaped vacuum tube, filled with neon gas, and having caesium reflectors. The fog-piercing properties depend on the fact that the light has an extremely long wave length...
...matter of fact, Commander Byrd and his crew were at that time lost in the fog and did not alight on the sea near Ver-sur-Mer until two hours later. In a tardy checking of the false report, an A. P. correspondent found a lone watchman at Issy Les Moulineaux, who had neither seen nor heard an airplane...
Clouds and fog thwarted observers in many places, but not in Giggleswick, England (pop. 950), whither gathered 70,000 and Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal. Shortly before the time that the eclipse was due-which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern...