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...Rolls-Royce S-6B, he darted over the Solent at about 300 ft. altitude, taking wide turns at the corners of the course to guard against disqualification. His first two laps were the fastest, averaging 342.9 m. p. h. When he crossed the finish line and shot his plane skyward, to lose speed for a landing, his average time for the race...
...reached the reviewing stand. Then it was that Skiron [northwest wind] turned Sassenach. Like the Assyrian of old he came down on the fold. In a jiffy he knocked off hats from every head. A thousand silk toppers of assorted vintages went tossing on the breeze. They were borne skyward but not on the wings of song. Coat tails, hitherto sedate enough, designed to cover substantial parts of the human anatomy, became possessed of seven devils. With hilarious impudence they flapped in places where they were not wanted. Badges were torn from the imposing fronts of the city fathers...
...pictures enclosed by Reader Habicht shows the U. S. Navy's dirigible Los Angeles moored to the mast of the oiler Patoka at sea. The second picture shows the Los Angeles, blown skyward by a sudden gust, sweeping the16,800-ton oiler after it high out of water. No such incident ever did or could occur. Let Reader Habicht examine his copy Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung more closely. Let him note that it is the annual April Fool's edition. Other pictures in that issue: A "3,000-year-old bas-relief of priceless worth," showing Assyrian gentlemen, playing...
...knew: that the ability and steady nerve of Pilot Bernt Balchen were largely-if not solely-responsible for the right-side-up landing of the plane near Ver-Sur-Mer in France and the escape of the crew. Here he italicizes a sentence from Byrd's own book Skyward: "Balchen happened to be at the wheel...
...course it is obligatory that the accounts of the pioneering aviation triumphs of modern times be accurately reported. What must be decided is whether the account of an eyewitness or that of one whose knowledge is secondhand, will be the accepted one. It is true that Byrd's book "Skyward", in which he relates his various flights, leaves little room for doubt as to who was the center and soul of the moments that arose, and even impress the careful thinker to take portions of the book with a great deal of salt...