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Pilot Boggs did not die, as TIME reported, on a "daylight joyhop." With two women guests with whom he was to have dinner, he crashed on an unlit field near Lake Norconian Club Airport. Norco, Calif. That he was testing radio beacons for the Department of Commerce up to the moment of death was testified by the fact that when he was pulled from the wreckage his earphones were still around his neck...
...Commerce for Aeronautics, whose routine resignation was on file last week, and his first aide, Col. Harry Harmon Blee. He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California...
...railroad terminals with announcers, numbered gates, everything to keep the passenger from going where he should not go. But at many fields it is still possible to do what a Dr. Andrew W. Speer of Wilkinsburg, Pa. did last week at Pittsburgh. He bought a $1 ticket for a joyhop, stepped into a nearby plane, made himself comfortable. The ship took off, set Dr. Speer down an hour & a half later in Columbus, Ohio. Good-natured officials of the airline (Transcontinental & Western Air) gave the bewildered doctor a free trip back to Pittsburgh (roundtrip fare: $21.60). The incident made some...
Never again will he hop off alone, Capt. Patterson said. But he announced plans for a four or five weeks' joyhop over the blue Caribbean, when Lieut. Becker will be at his side. Floyd Gibbons, famed journalist, will be guest. From Cuba to Central America, South America and the close-linked West Indies, he planned to circle the famed buccaneer waters. Last week his new plane, the Liberty, was being tuned up at Mitchel Field, L. I. She is a three-ton yacht of the air, with luxurious cabin, two motors of 520 horsepower each, speed of 140 miles...
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