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...midnight last week attendants at Miami municipal airport smelled smoke, then saw it streaming from the field's big hangar. Before Miami's fire department could get into action the hangar was a furnace, airplane gas tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...
...running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each of the car's four axles fit into pockets in the body of the car (see cut). As the top of these is above the coach's low centre of gravity...
...late thirties, Frank Fuller is secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's W. P. Fuller & Co. (paint), founded by his grandfather. He does not spend much time in his office. His wife, brother, sister and cousin are all flyers, and the Fuller planes take up half of a hangar at Mills Field. Californians generally call them "the flying Fullers...
...decade. Fifty Eastern Airliners and 16 American Airliners take off from or land at the Washington Airport every day. Yet it is small, partly undrained and bumpy, and the approaches are menaced by factories, high tension lines, a bluff, several structures on the field including a blimp hangar. A highway runs across the field; a military guard and stoplights are supposed to halt automobiles when planes are coming in or going out. For years Congressional committees have toyed with the project of acquiring a municipal port. Nothing has been done. This week a commission appointed by Congress recommended purchase...
...with the third. One child died, as did her husband. The others had chances of pulling through. Stewardess Elsa Ernst got away by sliding down a rope. Said she: "I could hear my hair crinkling as it burned." Passenger Herbert O'Laughlin, who ran black-faced into the hangar looking for a telephone to call his mother in Chicago, said: "I was in my cabin . . . packing . . . when I felt a slight tremor. . . . There was very little confusion among the passengers, no screaming, hardly any noise." Captain Pruss said nothing, held incommunicado by doctors who gave...