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When the retractable landing gear on one of Imperial Airways' three new luxurious, 22-passenger Frobishers jammed over Croydon Airport last month, its passengers jauntily drank a toast in champagne "To disaster-if it comes!" A mechanic got the wheels down pn that occasion...
This sort of thing has been going on for months. Up to last week the German Government and most non-Communist German newspapers continued to ignore the Red programs, fearing that any open protest would merely rouse the curiosity of German workmen, cause more of them to tune in pn Moscow. At the German Foreign Office it was learned last week, however, that diplomatic protests have been made to Moscow. In their reply the Soviet Foreign Office said...
...aircraft were the Navy's big new, Packard-motored all-steel PN-10 seaplanes, built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard especially for long-range scouting. The flight to Panama had been planned to test their efficiency and was to have been conducted under the supervision of the late Commander John Rodgers, hero of the Navy flight last year (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), in a PN9 from California to Hawaii. After Commander Rodgers' ironic death (TIME, Sept. 6), the leadership had passed to Flight Commander Harold T. Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell...
...Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself in 1836 tolling for John Marshall, from the Liberty Bell...
...more brilliant than Commander John Rodgers. . . ." There is no Rodgers in the service now. Navy men all, he was the last of them, killed just after he had earned retirement from active service, just as he was planning fresh feats for the Navy to perform in its new PN-10 seaplanes...