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Engaged. Pierre Lorillard, Manhattan and Tuxedo, N. Y. socialite, son of the late Pierre Lorillard who founded P. Lorillard Co. (tobacco) and Tuxedo Park; and Mrs. Ruth Hill Beard, relict of Anson McCook Beard, daughter of the late President James Jerome Hill of Great Northern Railroad...
...tests conducted by the Army Air Corps at McCook Field, Dayton, O., propellers were whirled by highspeed electric motors. Observers passing outside the laboratory reported the din was "like a battery of Liberty engines...
...Austria had its Petroczy; Great Britain its Brennan; France its Damblanc, Oemichen and Pescara; Spain its la Cierva. In the U. S., meanwhile, Henry Berliner, Baltimore aircraft builder, had spent a fortune in a decade's experiment, and Rumanian Professor Georges de Bothezat was conducting researches at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. For all of that labor, no helicopter was born...
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...until after the War, in January 1919, when Major E. L. Hoffman assumed charge of parachute research at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio, did the modern development of the chute really begin. Within a few months he produced the first successful "free-type" chute, to be worn on the back and opened by the wearer as he falls clear of his machine. It was followed by the seat-type, now in general use, first tested by Leslie Irvin, who jumped merely to prove that man does not lose control of his faculties in falling unhindered through space...