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...darkness "black as the shirts of the pilots," General Italo Balbo's squadron of twelve great Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes roared along the water off Bolama, west coast of Africa, to take-off for Brazil (TIME, Jan. 5). The first group of three black-winged ships, led by the General himself, vanished into the night, followed by a green-winged triad. Next came the red wings, but the third plane of that group faltered under its 10,000-lb. load, nosed down into the sea, killed its mechanic. The last triad, white-winged, was in the air ten minutes when...
...only trial flight before the India take-off was in mild weather, was cut from 24 hr. to 16 hr. without Lord Thomson's knowledge?and resulted in a dead engine...
...safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...
...subjects, which are to be explained without the use of technical language, will be discussed. "The Theory of the Flight of an Airplane". "Methods Used to Obtain Stability of Control". "Construction of an Airplane". "Types of Airplanes". "Operation of the Engine", and "A Procedure to be Followed in the Take-off. Flying and Landing of an Airplane...
...certain comparability nevertheless, for the value of either of these books is doubled and tripled by the other. Incidentally, "Ex-Wife" was selected as one of the 50 best examples of good bookmaking for the year 1929-30. Donald Ogden Stewart has contributed handsomely with a take-off on the "New Book of Etiquette"--"Perfect Behavior" and his "Parody Outline of History". And even such an inadequate bibliography as this one would be sadly incomplete without "Is Sex Necessary?" a highly amusing burlesque on everything in general and Mrs. Bertrand Russel in particular; and by all means, the "Censored Mother...