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...vast ocean in which a plane is but a tiny speck. But sometimes a malign fate seems actually to draw two machines together. Strong winds blew two Navy Vought airplanes into collision at Pensacola, Fla. Captain George F. Hill and Lieutenant Cornelius McFadden, both of the Marine Corps, were instantly killed in the crash. Lieutenant M. A. Richal, pilot of the second plane, is probably fatally injured...
Navy officials immediately instituted tests of the method at Pensacola, Fla. Twelve students who were making unsatisfactory progress were tried out. After two nights, during which the code was sent to those students in sleep, ten had learned the lesson, and the other two had left the class before completion of the experiment. The instructors now report that " the experimental stage is past, and the method may now be termed a standard...
...runaway balloon fame, in the flying ship Sampaio Correia II calls attention to another air achievement which will help to restore popular confidence in the commercial possibilities of long distance flying. The flight of the Sampaio Correia over the five and a half thousand miles between Pensacola and the capital of Brazil was accomplished in little over a hundred hours...
...Garver 1L., formerly overseas with the 25th American Squadron, where he downed three planes in combat. R. Blynn Varnum, elected corresponding secretary, served as instructor at Issoudon; France, and later with the 166th Squadron. The recording secretary W. W. Johnson '20, was an ensign in Naval Aviation at Pensacola...
...were announced yesterday. The men to represent the University will be David Gregg OcC., W. V. Daugherty '20, and George Crompton, Jr., '21. Gregg, who was attached to the Royal Flying Corps will fly in the army contests of May 10 and Daugherty, who was an instructing ensign at Pensacola, Florida, in the Naval Reserve Flying Corps, has been entered as pilot for the naval flights on May 3. Crompton, who was a junior lieutenant in the N. R. F. C. will be in the dirigible contest if one can be obtained...