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...season's opener for the Feslermen will come on Tuesday, December 6, at M. I. T. in Hangar Gymnasium. The regular Crimson five was not quite up to form yesterday, but it is unlikely that any of the men on the first quintet will be dislodged from their positions by next Tuesday...
Lately transferred to sea duty, he left behind at Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station 17 lighter-than-air officers who putter about the sky in seven small blimps and one metalclad ship. Still inflated but confined to its mast or hangar at Lakehurst is the aging Los Angeles, available for ground training but banned from the air by the skeptical Navy high command. (The Army has given up even observation balloons, turned to autogyros...
...truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport. As it did, the tell-tale needle swung full around, pointed backwards, spotted the truck parked behind a hangar...
When the plane taxied to the O. J. Whitney hangar at Floyd Bennett Field, a ladder was carried to the cabin door, but no one emerged. The doorhandle wiggled, police tugged from outside, but the door stayed shut. Said a bystander: "Now they'll have to go back to Germany and get the key." Finally the door popped open. Brisk Captain Alfred Henke emerged, said: "We've been sitting down for more than 24 hours. Now we want to stand up and get rested...
...Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes that for the last decade have carried most of the U. S. air commerce, pilots have had to duck and dodge three 800-foot radio towers, a clump of tall brick factory chimneys, a snaking Potomac lagoon, a blimp hangar, the U. S. Experimental Farm and, until a month ago, a highway that bisected the airport's 4,200-foot North-South runway. Last summer airline pilots, exasperated by years of shilly-shallying by politicos with options on or interests in most available airport property in the Washington area...