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> On the Anacostia River near Washington's Navy Yard, engineers tested fluorescent buoys to be used as markers for alighting seaplanes. Having no hot filaments to burn out, fluorescent lamps (coated inside with powders which shine by electrical agitation) are durable as well as efficient. The buoy lamps are...
Pan American Airways took Senator Nye's tip, at week's end announced that their transatlantic Clippers would not stop at Bermuda on eastbound trips after March 15. "With the improved weather service," the airline carefully explained, "the intermediate stop at Bermuda . . .will no longer be required." Clippers...
All in all, it was a mass flight of first historic importance. Not because of its distance (over 1,000 miles). Not because it brought invaluable and much needed help to the Finns and lots of trouble to the Russians, who are short on seaplanes. But because it cast the...
The Finns used some of their limited supply of planes to bomb the Russian base at Baltiski, Estonia. This was not pure cockiness, as it seemed, because the Russians are short on seaplanes and need land bases from which to operate. If these bases could be destroyed, Helsinki and other...
As her position necessitated, Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week...