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...monster on high. Beyond Kingman the plane crosses the Colorado River into California from where, if the day be clear, the passenger can see the lowest and highest points in the U. S.; Death Valley ( - 276 ft.) and Mt. Whitney (14,502 ft.). The desolate Mojave Desert is a runway to the last hurdle, the San Bernardino range, and another study in contrast as the plane "coasts" down the heavily wooded slope, orange groves reaching to the foothills, and again a close-lined population checkerboard. In the distance-it is now dusk -are the lights of Los Angeles...
Puffing upon one cigaret after another, Miss Jones directed mechanics in attaching to the Cirrus engine of a Moth biplane a muffler of her own invention. As the plane sped along the runway and over the hangars there were noises-of thrumming propeller, snapping pistons, vibrating metal-but there was no bark of exhaust...
...work of getting the 10-ton bell off the truck trailer upon which it was moved and into the shack took a group of movers over four hours. In order to lower the huge chime to the ground, a runway had to be built from the rear of the truck and skids put under the bell to roll it down to the ground. At the first attempt the great weight splintered a pair of skids six inches by eight. While this work was going on, the driver of a passing truck stopped to read the Russian inscription on the bell...
...Again, Hawks. By moonlight, Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks's red-&-white Travel Air Texaco 13 whizzed off the runway of Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...
Bromley's Luck. Last June Lieut. Harold Bromley raced his low-wing Lockheed down a runway for a Tacoma-to-Tokyo flight. Gasoline splashed in his eyes. Out of control, the plane ground-looped, broke into pieces. In September the late Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy testflew an identical plane for Bromley. Part of the tail surfaces washed away. Fahy was severely injured. Last week Bromley's third Tacoma-Tokyo ship burst into flames over the Mojave desert, near the Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif. Testpilot M. W. Catlin was horribly burned...