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...latest demonstration-and expansion-of this ratio was given last week. Adjutant Bonnet of the French Army, after months of preparation, climbed into a machine motored with a 450-h.p. Hispano Suiza, soared aloft, cometed down at 448 kilos, an hour (280 mi.) to a three-kilometer track near Paris, and won back to France the world's air-speed record, held by the U. S. since 1922. Like Lieut. Williams, U. S. N., who set the last world's record in 1923 at Dayton, Ohio, Adjutant Bonnet flew his course twice each way to establish an average...
Smooth gliding Hispano-Suizas, Minervas, gracefully imperious Renaults, the more conventional Rolls-Royces have begun again to deposit their precious burdens at the sacrosanct portals of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, of the Auditorium, Chicago. Venerable gentlemen in the prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make...
Lecointe climbed for an hour and twenty minutes in a Nieuport-Delace plane with Hispano motor 454. It took him 35 minutes to coast back to Earth. He wore electric-heated fur clothing, breathed from an oxygen bottle above 5,000 meters, used benzol fuel for the first 6,000 meters and above that gasoline. His thermometer broke at 40° below zero, Fahrenheit, and a broken oxygen bottle robbed him of one or two thousand meters more. He said: "If the weather's fair I may try it again...
Three of the six fliers from the University took the air route to Mineola Thursday, flying in Army planes from Framingham, making the trip in 2 1-2 hours. The planes flown down, which will be used in the race, were Curtis JH-6H biplanes with Hispano motors, a type of planes used in the Army for advanced training purposes...
...Hispano American Club will hold its first meeting, chiefly for organization, in the Shepard Room of the Phillips Brooks House on Sunday. Mr. P. G. Quinones 3L., and Mr. J. V. Manach '21 will have charge of the meeting. All Spanish speaking students are cordially invited to attend. The meetings of this club will be conducted exclusively in Spanish, and will consist for the most part in discussion and conference, chiefly for the purpose of establishing good relations between Americans and Latin-Americans at College...