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Last week at Farnborough Aerodrome, the British Air Ministry tested a simple device to overcome the fog hazard in flying. A tethered balloon was floated 100 yds. above a 90-ft. layer of fog and one-half mile from the field. A plane was fitted with a trailing weight suspended by a few feet of wire. Approaching the hidden field, the pilot oriented himself by the known position of the balloon, put his ship into a glide of prescribed angle, leveled off when a red light on his instrument board told him the suspended weight had touched ground...
...Weather hazard in aviation has been overcome by radio to the extent of: 1) warning the pilot of conditions ahead; 2) guiding him to a point above his destination. Yet many an accident has occurred because the airport was obscured by fog. This problem-to land an airplane where the pilot cannot see-has been the subject of extensive experiment with highly sensitized altimeters (TIME, Oct. 7) and with auditory radio signals. Last week in Gloucester, Mass., a new line of attack, by which the pilot "sees" the hidden field, was announced by John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor famed...
...Jesus," at Lisieux, has gone many a pil grim. Soldiers who whispered her name at the Marne or Verdun have covered her shrine with their medals and swords. A few years ago the shrine was visited by Mrs. Edward C. Post, 56, rich Newport relative of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont who had lived much in France since her husband died. Deaf when she arrived, Mrs. Post left cured...
Uncritically, without comment, Author Hazard assembles evidence which indicts Manhattan's legislators, welfare workers, police officials, as grafting or unscrupulous or unintelligent or all. If the book has a "message," this...
...difficult form of writing is the brief sketch, usually essayed only by adepts. Neat selection of detail, curt force of language, descriptive finesse are necessary. Taximan Hazard possesses these literary attributes, provided he wrote his own book. Even if he did not, he is a skilful collaborator. Once a hobo, he says: "I came to New York just to see the sights ... my money ran low. . . . Hack driving seemed to be a very handy way to see New York and eat at the same time." Still at the taxi wheel, he is now about...