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...this "dolly" had not been tested with the ship weighing over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...
...forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters, 425 h.p. apiece, brought over, installed and tested by the makers mechanic She will carry seven tons of gasoline, 1,500 lbs. of oil, enough for 4,300 miles (about 700 miles margin for defection or head winds) in the 3,660-mile route from New York to Paris...
France. The Seine rose to within 18 inches of the high water record of 1910, at Troyes; but at Paris only the suburbs had been flooded late in the week. The Marne, Loire, Rhone, Oise, Cher, etc., overflowed with variously disastrous results.. The Orne caused damages running into millions of francs and one death at Caen, the so called "Intellectual Capital of Normandy...
...water. Mr. Mathews has not yet seen fit to report his researches to the Royal Society or other scientific bodies, and he has yet to produce the effects he claims outside of a small laboratory. He has been offered the use of the well-equipped laboratories of the Rhone Engineering Works, Lyons, by M. Eugene Royer, their director, himself an inventor. He also has French financial backing, but he declares the French Government has no connection with the offer. In France he will experiment with the high frequency currents, on a large uninhabited tract, and he has unbounded confidence that...
This League is far and away the most American thing that I have seen all summer on this suffering continent of Europe. That little international community of 350 men and women--the Secretariat whose work in the bustling Palais des Nations by the Rhone carries so far--has many Americans in it, three of whom, I am glad to say, are in really important positions. This great experiment that American faith and courage did much to start needs, as it has always needed, our aid as well as that of others. It has now become a successful experiment...