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...Landplanes can operate from fields of that altitude, or higher: hut amphibians are necessarilv heavier, less efficient...
When Col. Lindbergh points his Lockheed over Greenland's inland ice; when he takes the heavier, slower Fairchild, gets a radio bearing from the Jellinge and tries his hand at drilling through a fog wall into port-such exciting ventures will be the climax of an infinitely painstaking job which Pan American inherited a year ago. At that time the company hired an adventurous young British scientist named Harold George Watkins who previously had headed the British Arctic Air Route Expedition in Greenland for a purpose similar to Pan American's. Explorer Watkins took charge...
...Athletic Association announced that the development of year-round coaching for members of the Varsity and Freshman coaching staffs would be carried still further next year. Earlier in the spring it was made known that coaches who were doing only seasonal work would be expected to take on a heavier program, and several changes have already been made to reduce the size of the coaching staff...
After hearing arguments by naval officers including famed Lieut.-Commander Rosendahl; editors including Arthur Brisbane and Joseph Medill Patterson; heavier-than-air experts including Col. Lindbergh and Brigadier-General William ("Billy") Mitchell, the joint Congressional committee on the Akron disaster last week gave a bill-of-health to the Navy's airship- program, saw in it "further potential utility to be developed only by experience." Prime recommendations...
...Hawk, Glenn Martin, 17, was tinkering bicycles at his parents' home in Santa Ana, Calif. Four years later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became a showman, developed an aptitude for publicity which stood him in good stead years later. Photographs of his early barnstorming days show him about to take off with a lady parachute jumper, clad...