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Under Transport, headed Kiwi (TIME, July 31) you wrote a story about British Subject Charles Grey Grey, editor for 28 years of the British aviation magazine The Aeroplane. Isn't the accompanying photograph (captioned "Charles Grey Grey...
...airman, journalist and British subject, Charles Grey ("Center of Gravity") Grey is a bird rare as the wingless kiwi. Editor since 1911 of Britain's well-informed trade weekly The Aeroplane, he seldom stuck his balding head inside one, when he did, prayed it would "land slowly and not burn up." In a publication ostensibly technical, aerophobic Editor Grey devoted whopping columns to his pet political peeves and peevish political pets. He was shrilly pro-Nazi, anti-French, abominated U. S.-made planes, roundly clapperclawed the British Air Ministry for buying them. A colorful penman with spectacular contempt...
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...plane with an instructor. Last week at Glenn Curtiss airport, N. Y. a new method was introduced, to give students the ''feel" by letting them "fly solo" before leaving the ground. Equipment used: i) a glider mounted to swing in the blast of a fan; 2) an almost wingless "kiwi" or taxiplane which scoots around the field but cannot rise and which has strong hoops in front to protect the tyro if he noses over; 3) an ordinary glider; 4) a low-powered training plane...
...Zealand journalists foregathered at Dunedin to honor Russell Owen, returning Byrd expedition newspaperman. They gave him a paperweight made of New Zealand greenstone, surmounted by a silver model of the Kiwi (New Zealand bird with rudimentary wings useless for flying), toasted him "the only newspaperman in the world who has covered assignments in both Polar regions...