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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dirigibles for Offense. Up under the belly of the dirigible Los Angeles last week rose a Navy service plane. Both craft were traveling 60 m. p. h. On the top wing of the plane was a big hook. Down from the dirigible extended a rigid trapeze. The plane's pilot successfully maneuvered to engage hook with trapeze so that the plane hung there, was carried along. Three times the plane thus made successful contact. The experiment had been effected previously with smaller, semirigid Navy dirigibles, never with the big Los Angeles. Experts viewed the work as changing big dirigibles...
...Los Angeles is a non-military airship, received by the U. S. from Germany under an Allied agreement specifying that it be used only for training and experimental purposes, never for war. But the plane-hooking experiment furnished knowledge of speeds, stresses, handling, valuable in the fabrication of the Navy's two huge dirigibles, twice the size of the Los Angeles, by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. at Akron, Ohio. The new ships will have built-in hangars in which to store and carry planes...
...Weather Bureau began functioning last week to protect flying all the way across the continent. In a 400-mi. wide strip from Los Angeles to San Francisco to New York, 60 weather reporting stations have been organized. Day and night they report local meteorological conditions to collecting centres at Cleveland, Omaha, Salt Lake City, San Francisco. From these centres, every three hours, day and night, consolidated weather information on wind direction and velocity, temperature, dew point, air pressure, clouds, is broadcast to passing planes...
Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, lean, native U. S. baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was last week arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles. Next day, still jolly, he stood outside a cafe, squirted a hose on the cafe manager's automobile and on passersby, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace...
...seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape, won the windy race in 10 sec. flat. He explained: "I guess I'm built so low the wind just didn't hit me." Then he proceeded to win the 220-yard dash also. Herman Brix, Los Angeles A. C., hurled the 8-lb. shot 67 ft. 11½ in. for the meet's only world's record...