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...stunt and decidedly not on the program was the shattering accident that obliterated two planes, killed two racing pilots in the first day's events. Zipping around a pylon in specially designed speedsters at nearly 200 m. p. h. Thompson Trophy-Winner Rudy Kling, Lemont, Ill. garage proprietor, and Detroit Barnstormer Frank Haines sideslipped and somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed...
...square yd. of bunting tied with more than seven miles of gold ribbon. Not only were those buildings in the German capital most likely to be seen by II Duce wrapped up like Christmas packages, but Unter den Linden, the main thoroughfare, sprouted on each side colossal white pylons four rows deep and as high as the buildings behind them, each pylon topped with a glaring gold eagle. Aryan-owned buildings had the "honor" of sprouting both German and Italian flags, Jewish premises could only fly the tricolor of Italy. To greet the Dictators when they arrived...
Christened the "Vertaplane" by its inventor, Gerard Post Herrick (distant kin of onetime Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick) of New York City, the craft has a strong pylon with a vertical mast which holds the top wing firmly in place for ordinary flying, and when released allows it to revolve on a bearing for a gyro landing. By virtue of a starting mechanism in the wing which starts rotation on the ground, the Vertaplane can make a gyro takeoff as well as a gyro landing. It weighs 1,700 lb., has a 125-h.p. motor. Said happy Inventor Herrick...
...annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
...PYLON-William Faulkner- Smith & Haas...