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...young woman with two frozen toes, crackling ears and blood in her mouth. She was Miss Frankie Renner, 30, secretary-treasurer of Robbins Flying Service and of Aviation College Inc. Her physical condition did not make her unhappy for it was merely the result of climbing in a Waco biplane to an apparent altitude of 33,000 ft.?perhaps 3,000 ft. higher than Ruth Nichols' climb last fortnight, and a new women's record...
...Glenn H. Curtiss Airport, N. Y. last week a great crowd of aeronautical men watched what appeared to be a conventional Waco biplane as it came in for a landing. It did not slant down toward the ground and suddenly level off. It floated down slowly, steadily at the same angle, tail high in normal flying attitude. More remarkable, the pilot's white-gloved hands could be seen upraised above his head as the craft touched the ice-coated surface, bounced a few times and was brought to a stop by footbrakes. The plane had landed itself...
...makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller," he explained. "It bores through the air. I got the idea five years ago from a posthole borer on my farm." Most pilots snickered, but good-natured Pilot Frank Steinman attached the device to the prop of his OX-Waco. went aloft. Few minutes later he landed, told skeptics that his plane had flown 10 m.p.h. faster than normally; that his engine had to turn only 1,260 r.p.m. instead of 1,320 to maintain altitude. On the advice of friendly airmen Inventor Perry planned to reduce the weight...
...engines. The winning pilot, Harry L. Russell, took the lead of the 18 contestants early in the 4,900 mi. race, gradually increased it through the two weeks of flying, finished the circuit at Detroit with 58,575 points. Until the final leg, Pilot Russell was always threatened by Waco's John Livingston and Arthur Davis whose company won the 1928 air tour. Pilot Livingston's score was 55,628 points. Honors in the class for single or dual engined cabin planes went to George Haldeman, whose Bellanca Pacemaker, after an early forced landing in Canada, fought...
...full of liquor, while late arrivals, grasping the situation at sight, hurled bottles right & left before their planes could be searched. Among 18 flyers competing for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy, the Ford tri-motor piloted by Lieut. Harry Russell led by 1,763 points. Second was the Waco of John Livingston, last year's winner, to whom a second and third victory would give permanent possession of the trophy...