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Located within one hour, by aviators peering from seaplanes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Italian | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Colonel Green plans to build a $1,500,000 airport on his estate, Round Hills, at South Dartmouth, Mass, (near New Bedford). He will have two magnificent runways, 3,800 and 2,700 feet long; a bay protected by a breakwater for the use of seaplanes; some of the finest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Patron Green | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Muffled from toes to topknot, Lieut. Carlton G. Champion of the U. S. Navy last week climbed above Washington, D. C., as far as his Wright Apache seaplane, with a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, would take him. When he came down, his instruments were certified as showing 37,995 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Champion Champion | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Ile de France sped on, driven by four turbines, at 23 knots.† Although this is slower than the 28 knot Mauretania, "fastest ship in the world," the Ile de France will shortly be equipped with seaplanes from which hurried passengers may be shot from her deck two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Peace Passage | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Chesapeake Bay lay flat and balmy, but corners of the sky looked ugly. Two Navy seaplanes, flying so high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Yellow Giant | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

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