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...decided on the inland route. Blotner sent an unaeronautical engineer to Barreiras to find a landing field for a stop between Belem and Rio. The engineer chose a spot about three miles from town, laid out its boundaries. Last Spring an expedition cleared one runway so Pan Am engineers could fly in to finish the job. When they got there, they found that the engineer had ignored the shelf of a plateau rising 1,000 feet from the edge of the field. By some deft sideslipping the pilot got in. The engineers went to look for a new field...
...days afterwards German planes ranged widely over the British Isles on scattered raids in small formations. They said they smashed the runway at the Bristol airport, the Pobjoy airplane-engine works at Rochester, an explosives factory at Faversham, docks and shipyards at Newcastle, Sheerness, Chatham. On the third day they staged another big show, beginning at 7:30 a.m., on Dover's repaired balloon barrage...
...company, tall, straight-lipped Vultee President Richard W. Millar needed new capacity fast. Stinson has the advantage of a supermodern plant, situated in the Defense Area, hemmed in by the high Cumberland Mountains, supplied with cheap TVA power. It adjoins Nashville's huge new Berry Field, with ample runway room for test takeoffs. The average flying weather is better in Tennessee than most other sections. With Tennessee's plentiful labor, Vultee could figure on boosting employment at Nashville from Stinson's present 725 to 7,000 or more. Stinson had a parts plant at Wayne, Mich.; Vultee...
...pole vault event at an even 13 feet. Ford, a Freshman, has shown his stuff in coming up from the 11 feet 6 inches he averaged before Jaakko took him in hand. Madey took first place and a medal in the event; be lunched along the runway three times and came heartbreakingly close to rolling over the bar at 13 feet 6 inches...
...drizzly night last week, TWA Pilot Jack Zimmerman, with 20 passengers behind him, circled over The Bronx. With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd...