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...biting wind whistled across Detroit City Airport one day last week as the doors of the largest airplane hangar in the world were rolled hack to reveal what U. S. aircraft manufacturers had to offer for 1932. Within the hangar some 50 air- planes of assorted sizes stood among upright pillars disguised to look like tree trunks. No decoration scheme could conceal the fact that there was more empty floor space than in any previous National Aircraft Show. The planes on display numbered only half of last year's. But the exhibitors assured each other that they, who had answered...
...scale. According to the pilots-all members of the new union-it amounted to a reduction of nearly 50%. They refused, made counter demands for union recognition, reported for work one morning last week to find armed guards and company officials barring their way to the Century hangar. The officials handed them letters "accepting" their resignations and blank applications for work under the new wage scale, which the pilots rejected. Meanwhile Century's schedules from Chicago to Detroit and Cleveland were discontinued. The service to St. Louis was maintained by two '"strikebreaking" pilots. Alongside one of those planes...
...airplane hangar within the envelope is yet to be equipped. Five pursuit planes are to be installed. Armaments are to be emplaced. And the propellers are to be exchanged for new ones to step up the speed. For six months the Navy will have the ship technically "on approval...
...from Preakness, homeward bound to Philadelphia. The mist enveloped them. It was impossible to go on, too late to turn back. They would make for the field at Paterson nearby. Cautiously Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship into a glide, and-Crash! . . . The fuselage of the Vales' plane, with its two occupants uninjured was wedged tight...
Early one morning last week the Hyphen II was wheeled out on Le Bourget Field for a takeoff. Pilot Lebrix paused in his preparations to scowl at the sight of another ship, pushed from a nearby hangar. It was the famed Question Mark which Capt. Dieudonne ("Doudou") Coste flew to the U. S. last year. And there was "Doudou" himself, stocky, sleek-haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix...