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...Vaisseau Paris, built in 1934 and now an old-fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1756, Captain Barde reached Birdsboro via the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, England, and war with the Spaniards at Pensacola, Fla. where he wooed and won the 14-year-old daughter of his landlady with a ring chopped from a gold guinea. He did so well renting Birdsboro that he bought it in 1796. Plant Manager Matthew Brooke married his daughter and Brooke-Barde descendants have owned and operated Birdsboro ever since. Chairman now of the Birdsboro board, which contains six Brookes, is tall, 70-year-old Robert Edward Brooke, grandson of Matthew. President since...
Last week Air France and the French Line joined in creating a new concern called Companie Air France-Transatlantique. It announced that the lumbering old flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, which capsized in Pensacola Bay 18 months ago after flying up from South America, had been rebuilt, would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece...
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This will be followed by a year's course in primary and advanced flight training at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, where candidates will be enrolled as aviation cadets...