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...first time, by making five-minute flights, for the three-gull emblem denoting the soaring pilot. While all motorless flight is technically gliding, there is a popular distinction between gliding and soaring. Gliding is simple descent, like coasting, from an altitude achieved by climbing a hill or being towed kite-wise into the air by an automobile or airplane. Soaring is sustained or climbing flight by use of up-currents in the air. Except for instruction there is small interest in gliding. But soaring appeals to its following as an exalted sport, related to powered flight as sail-boating...
...week in Aviation magazine castigate the airplane industry for its lack of ingenuity and inventiveness. In the same tenor in the same magazine two years ago Designer Stout, long a gadfly of the industry, observed that no plane had been produced as efficient per horsepower as the original Wright kite-like biplane. Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow all the water back over the hull ... of a bicycle manufacturer starting to build high wheeled bicycles...
...debts last week. City and county (they are practically identical) owed 600 million dollars on bonds. The community had enough money to pay its bank debts, but $1,625,000 less than enough to pay 26,000 employes their mid December wages. Mayor Harry Arista Mackey & staff tried to kite the city's pay checks by postdating them until Jan. 1, when Philadelphia could sell $2,000,000 in bonds to the sinking fund. The kited city checks were to be called "scrip." Banks refused to pour more money down the political sewer. Private banks, like Drexel & Co. (Morgan...
...Guglielmo Marconi at St. John's, Newfoundland, 30 years ago; celebrated-with the greatest world-round radio hook-up ever effected. Recalling the event, Senator Marconi said that for six days, while "S" signals were being sent regularly from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, he and his assistants sent up kites and a balloon with aerial wires attached. A wild December storm raged, carried the balloon and most of the kites away. Finally a kite was flown successfully and on Dec. 12, above the electrical disturbances, three faint clicks came through...
...political and diplomatic career is also well enough known in the casual way. Everyone knows, that he foresaw the United States at Albany. There are countless stories of his graceful mots when he bowed low in the court of France. School boys are raised on the story of the kite...