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...speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation. Yet even with weather conditions unusually good, with tail winds for much of the way, with such crack...
...answer when Pilot Jean Mermoz and two companions flew the Paris mail into Santiago, Chile, in four days. Compagnie Generale Aeropostale announced a weekly schedule, weather permitting. from Toulouse, France, to Santiago via Senegal, Brazil and Buenos Aires. Craft used: a Late 28 seaplane powered with 600-h. p. Hispano-Suiza engine. Significance: France will concentrate on heavier-than-air craft with immediate returns while other nations undertake costly dirigible experiment...
Duration with weight; distance with weight: Dieudonne Costes and Paul Codos, in one flight, over Marseilles, flew 2,048 mi., in 18 hr. 1 min. with one gross ton of cargo in a Brequet with Hispano-Suiza motor...
...Eight ($8,000 to $10,000), and the Skoda Eight ($8,000), made by the notorious old Skoda munitions plant, once the chief arsenal of Imperial Austria and still suspected of supplying arms to China. Czechoslovakia has bought the right to manufacture a lighter model of the internationally famed Hispano-Suiza Eight ($12,000). "Unless we raise our tariff against American automobiles," concluded M. Novak, "I fear that at least 20,000 workers in our new automotive Infant Industry will soon be out of their jobs." The Czechoslovak tariff on foreign motors is already 40% to 42%. The five...
...Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...