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...months later Secretary Wilbur pinned the D. F. C. upon the breasts of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and Radioman Noville for the flight to France - a private venture backed by the late Rodman Wanamaker. "At the same table ... sat Bernt Balchen, Lieutenant in the Norwegian Naval Reserve . . . and Bert Acosta [who] had flown Byrd and Noville across the Atlantic ... to them, publicly, Secretary Wilbur expressed regret that because they were 'civilians' the law barred them from...
Right after the War, Coste flew for Air Union as a $25-per-week pilot on the new London-Paris route. His famed flying companion, Maurice Bellonte, was his navigator and radioman in that service. For all the talk of "millions" in store for them, Coste & Bellonte together realized no more than $100,000 from their 1930 trans-atlantic flight and all that went with it. According to Variety's Paris correspondence: "They came home tired and disillusioned. French Government carried them on the hip for $300,000. No way to get that back." Balbo's Squadron. Into...
...direction finder or "homing device" invented by Radioman Geodfrey G. Kruesi of Western Air Express is supplementary to the ordinary aircraft radio. If the pilot cannot pick up the signals of the beacon, he simply tunes in on the known wavelength of any broadcasting station in the region. A dial on his instrument board then shows him his direction of flight in relation to the position of the broadcasting station. Last week Inventor Kruesi took his invention to Asheville, N. C, there to confer with his ailing department chief Herbert Hoover Jr. Later he was to show it to Army...
...alumni, some have done decidedly well. Among them: President Chester Irving Barnard of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University, Headmaster James Isaac Wendell of The Hill School, Radioman Lee De-Forest, Actor Glenn Hunter...
...plane, which carries a crew of three (pilot, photographer, radioman) is capable of 150 m. p. h. with normal load of 2,443 Ib.?faster than any U. S. military planes except small pursuit craft. Machine guns are mounted fore & aft. It is primarily designed for long-range reconnaissance and photographic work. But at the Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed...