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From Oakland, Calif, he zipped to Fairbanks, Alaska in less than 14 hours. Following his $100,000 high-speed Lockheed was an old tri-motor Ford from which he planned to refuel in midair, thus tripling his range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination...
...Philadelphia one day last week a pilot named George Townson took off from an airport in a plane that resembled an ordinary biplane. He circled the field, landed normally, few minutes later took off again. While he was in midair, watchers on the ground saw the upper wing begin to revolve like the vanes of a gyro. This time George Townson landed in the steep, space-saving drop characteristic of a gyro, came to earth gently...
Monkeys who catch pigeons n midair en route from one tree to the next, monkeys who juggle china cups without breaking them, monkeys who walk and almost even talk are to be the goal of the expedition, the first half of which will leave New York for Singapore on the S.S "Kota Tjandi" on December...
...eventually bought a Curtiss JN4D ("Jenny"). A onetime Army officer named Vernon C. Omlie taught her to fly it. Year later, after he had also taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes at the National Air Races. Finally, in 1932, after a half-million miles...
...revolution in about two seconds. Of all these motions . . . the only one recognized was rotation of the body. . . . During the third and fourth seconds, the eyes were voluntarily closed and during that time all sense of motion was lost. . . . The sensation was that of being suspended at rest in midair. When the eyes were opened, which was at an altitude of about 1,900 ft., and the ground again sighted . . . there was for the first time a definite sensation of falling. This . . . increased rapidly. . . . This phenomenon . . . lends strong support to the recent theory that...