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...strong southeast wind, 16 swollen gas bags floated up from Basle, Switzerland, one day last week. It was the 21st James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Favorite teams were led by Belgium's Ernest de Muyter, four-time winner of Bennett races, and Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down...
...Arthur Colbraith Dorrance (Campbell Soup), Irénée du Pont (explosives), George Horace Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay Williams (Reynolds Tobacco), A. D. Geoghegan (Wesson Oil), Fred Wesley Sargent (Chicago & Northwestern), John Stuart (Quaker Oats), Fred Pabst (Cheese), Alvan Macauley (Packard), Frank Chambless Rand (International Shoe), Robert L. Lund (Listerine), Charles Donnelly (Northern Pacific), Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (lumber...
...informed, TIME erred July 11, p. 28, under the heading Aeronautics. Says TIME: ''No one last week could read the Los Angeles' future. . . . Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Alacon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock in Akron, Ohio, while a delegation from Macon, Ga., waved flags. . . ." As a member of the Macon delegation in Akron on this occasion, I can say without reservation that no flags were waved. Only a ribbon inscribed, modestly enough, "MACON. In The Heart Of Georgia" graced the left...
...last week could read the Los Angeles' future. From dead storage she could be recommissioned in 30 days. Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Macon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio while a delegation from Macon, Ga. waved flags. The Navy has been approached by prospective purchasers of the Los Angeles (prominently mentioned: Chicago World's Fair) but manifests no desire to consign the ship to unpracticed hands...
Research. Of its $2,500,000 endowment, the Daniel Guggenheim Foundation for the Promotion of Aeronautics allotted one-tenth for lighter-than-air study. Housed in a new building at the Akron Municipal Airport, hard by the gigantic Goodyear-Zeppelin dock, the Guggenheim Airship Institute was to be dedicated this week. Features: largest vertical wind tunnel in existence, 60 ft. high; a small wind tunnel for testing instruments; meteorological tower; structural testing room. Chief problems to be attacked: nature of the so-called "boundary layer" of air, adjacent to the outer skin of an airship, and its resistant effect upon...