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...They powered the fighters for the Navy's new aircraft carriers, won the world's altitude record for the U.S., hurled Jimmy Doolittle to racing fame, carried Pan American's Martin flying boats in the first commercial flights across the oceans, flew Lindbergh on a record-breaking transcontinental flight, Wiley Post around the world, Howard Hughes to a transcontinental record, and Amelia Earhart to her unknown fate. In World War II, engines made by Pratt & Whitney and its licensees (Ford, Buick, Chevrolet, Nash-Kelvinator and others) furnished half of all the U.S. piston horsepower flown...
Handwriting expert Albert D. Osborn, whose handwriting analysis figured in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial in 1935, lectured to the jury about why he thought Knaus had not signed the forged checks. In the cross-examination, Prosecutor Lyman C. Sprague emphasized that Osborn was hired by the defense and that Osborn did find some similarities between Knaus's writing and the writing on the checks...
...studious young man of 18 taking beginners' climbs on the easy trails of Yosemite with the Stanford University Alpine Club but otherwise inconspicuous and unnoticed among 7,400 students, was rounding out his freshman year: Jon Morrow Lindbergh, eldest of five children of Charles and Anne Lindbergh...
...Including the Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk; Wiley Post's Winnie Mae; Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis...
Died. Charles Lanier Lawrance, 67, pioneering designer of air-cooled airplane engines, including the 200 h.p. Wright Whirlwind that powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart ailment; in East Islip, N.Y. Taking little credit for his achievements, Lawrance once modestly asked: "Who ever heard the name of Paul Revere's horse...