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Solitary flight is lonely with nothing to break the monotony of blue sky and clear airs. News from England shows that light-plane builders recognize the need of sociability; and at a recent meet at Lympne, two-seater "chummy-fly-abouts" made their appearance for the first time. With a 30 horsepower engine, the curiously named Wee-Bee 1 made a speed of 70 m.p.h., with a mileage of 36 to the gallon, carrying a pilot and passenger of ordinary weight...
Basil L. Rowe of Alben, N. Y., drove his SV-A three-seater at 111.05 m.p.h. and won the Detroit Aviation Town and Country Club's prize. Jones Curtiss-Oriole led this race until forced down near the finish. The Yellow Air Cab took second...
...wing while the pilot left the machine entirely to its own control. The first man to loop a hydroplane, the first to instal a radio set in an airplane, he was carving a brilliant career as a designer and builder of aircraft. His Messenger (a tiny single seater) came into most general use in the Army Air Service. Sperry used it to commute between his home and factory on Long Island. On a recent visit to England, his electioneering by plane for Lloyd George attracted general attention. True to his profession, and his convictions, he planned to make his business...
Leaving Hampton Roads. Va., at dawn, 16 large Martin bombers flew in war formation to Bangor, Me., covering the distance of 800 miles in eight and a half hours. At Mitchel Field, L. I., the armada was reinforced by a squadron of fast De Havilands and single-seater fighters. Fully armed and equipped, the Martin bombers each carried from three to five men, camp equipment from cots to typewriters, enough food to last four days. Sometimes the commander, Major John N. Reynolds, took his fleet in single file, sometimes in V formation so close together that the wing tips seemed...
After a test flight in a Curtiss single-seater pursuit airplane at Mineola, Brigadier General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of Air Service, met with an accident on landing which might have had serious consequences. The landing gear or undercarriage of the plane struck a rut and broke; the machine did not overturn, however, and the General, with the promptness of a cavalryman, released his safety belt and jumped out, escaping with a severe shaking...