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...banquet hall in the Alcazar Hotel was transformed into a temporary airplane hangar. Five hundred guests sat down to dinner; among them Herbert C. Hoover, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Anthony H. G. Fokker, Owen D. Young, Franklin D. Roosevelt. All talked aviation, particularly commercial aviation; all honored Van Lear Black, potent banker as well as newspaper solon, for his ten-month survey of commercial flying abroad...
Eighteenth Day. Typhoon and tidal wave struck Kiushiu Island, Japan (see p. 22) on which is Omura, where the Pride of Detroit sulked in her hangar. So boisterous were the skies that the Pride dared...
Eighth Day. Two dusty and unshaven men crawled from the cabin of the Pride of Detroit after she was wheeled into a hangar at the British Air Service Field at Karachi, India. They were greeted by a Sunday crowd; British officers; the American Consul. They reported the Pride functioning flawlessly, despite the heat...
Anthony H. G. Fokker, upon seeing the monoplane America, which he designed and built for transatlantic flight, brought out of its hangar in a bright new coat of paint, threw up his hands and cried: "What! I spend all my time trying to take weight off the machine and they put on 40 Ib. of paint! Terrible! Terrible...
White Bird, the biplane of Captain Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser and Captain Francois Coli had come out of its hangar. The plainsfolk, awed, were so quiet they could hear the gurgle of 1,000 gallons of gasoline which were promptly put into the White Bird. Its engine was tested?roared magnificently. Soon Captains Nungesser and Coli gave it a final inspection. Soon they kissed relatives, mechanics, engineers; climbed aboard, while French soldiers with bayonets kept the crowd at a distance. Engineer Carol, designer of the White Bird, fell to the ground, weeping, as the plane left the soil...