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No flukes are the new Italian speed records, but the fruit of a determined program begun six years ago, after Britain won the Schneider Trophy on Italy's course at Venice. At that time Air Minister Italo Balbo established the speed school at Lake Garda, put Col. Bernasconi in...
Obeying Defense Minister Deckers' orders, Vice Admiral Osten instructed the pursuing Java & destroyers which had been joined by two Dutch submarines to seize the De Zeven Provincien at any cost. Just at dawn seaplanes with bombs in their bellies were hoisted off the Java's decks.
What Reporter Knickerbocker stated, and what his editors seemed to overlook, is that the Rohrbach experiment so far "is only a millennium on paper." Nor is the Rohrbach principle entirely new. Dr. Rohrbach, a builder most famed for his seaplanes (Rohrbach "Rostra." Rohrbach "Romar") has been working on the revolving...
Officials of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried hard to conceal their excitement over an airplane being crated for shipment from East Hartford, Conn, last week. There was nothing extraordinary about the plane. It was a Vought Corsair of a year-old model, such as the U. S. Navy uses for...
An explanation of this disparity lies in the Schneider Trophy which stimulated various governments (with the exception of the U. S. since 1926) to develop seaplane engines adapted to racing. These are cylinder-in-line machines of 2,600 h. p., perfectly streamlined. Such an engine may have a life...