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...capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. With this bag. tall as a 30-story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record of 61,237 ft. last Autumn (TIME, Nov. 27), three and one-half times as large...
Pilots & Priests. On its delivery flight from Detroit to Lakehurst last week the metalclad dirigible ZMC-2 (TIME, Sept. 2) scared a team of horses at Kingston, N. J. The runaways threw their driver, one Calvin Petty, from his seat and dragged him. Dirigible Capt. William E. Kepner and his crew of two saw the accident, lowered their ship over St. Joseph...
...Dollfus. But the airline distance from Detroit to Walnut Cove, N. C., is only 447.9 miles, 11.5 miles less than the distance from Detroit to Chase City, Va., where German Hugo Kaulen ended his trip, 13 miles less than the distance to Kenbridge, Va., where Capt. Edmund W. E. Kepner of the U. S. Army landed his bubble. Capt. Kepner was unofficially adjudged, last week, to have brought the U. S. its third consecutive victory in the James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race, assuring permanent possession of the trophy...
...Bohlen, G. M. Bond, M. H. Clifford, C. D. Coady, L. J. Colby, L. F. Daley, J. R. Dean, J. B. Durant, Nathaniel Hamlen, D. J. Kepner, B. L. Kilgour, A. H. Miller, Geoffrey Platt, Reginald Porter, J. N. Robinson, J. O. Rosecrans, S. S. Rudman, R. S. Savory, R. S. Scott, E. T. Sexton, A. E Smith, G. Stewart, J. B. Upton, F. W. Welch, Isadore Zarakov, to the Manager, J. R. Burke, the Assistant Manager, F. V. Field, and to W. P. Ellison, who was injured before the Yale Game...
...squad of players which Coach Campbell will take to New Haven tomorrow includes the following 30 men: Bohlen, Bond, Coady, Clifford, Colby, Coolidge, Daley, Dean, Durant, Hamlen, Hesse, Kilgour, Kepner, Lockhart, Miller, Platt, Porter, Powning, Robinson, Rosencranz, Rudman, Savory, Sexton, Sedgewick, Scott, Smith, Stewart, Upton, Welch, Zarakov...