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...Aviation Awards were announced. Aviatrix: Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of the President of France, for setting the women's speed record-509 m.p.h.-in a jet fighter. Aviator: Pan American World Airways Captain Charles F. Blair Jr., the first man to fly a single-engine fighter plane nonstop across the North Pole. Aeronaut: Lieut. Carl J. Seiberlich, U.S.N., for developing new techniques in the use of low-flying airships...
...Navy got what it wanted: a fast ship that can be quickly converted into a troop transport capable of carrying 14,000 men halfway around the world, nonstop. The United States' reinforced decks are strong enough to hold gun platforms; her hull is divided into watertight compartments whose doors can be closed automatically to seal off damage...
...Bruce Parker and Evelyn Wolford, the world's long-distance water ski record. Trying to make a nonstop, 196-mile ski from Nassau to Miami behind a speedboat, the couple hit a squall, were spilled by 20-ft. waves after traveling about 135 miles...
...fuel consumption may well lengthen the time by a stop en route. But by then, Straight has good reason to hope that both Britain's and the U.S.'s swift progress in the perfection of bigger and more economical jet engines will make possible nonstop jet transports. With the advantage of its jet experience, BOAC hopes to have everybody else trailing its blast...
Back in 1927, T. (for Tubal) Claude Ryan got a telegram that seemed to ask the impossible: Could he build a plane that was capable of flying nonstop from New York to Paris? Ryan, a happy-go-lucky ex-barnstormer and head of a tiny airplane plant in San Diego, casually wired back that he could. A few days later, a lanky pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh walked into his hangar, offered him $15,000 if he could do the job in 60 days. Two months later, the Spirit of St. Louis was completed...