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...like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night last week, waiting in the stage-like dark for Wiley Post to come back from around the world, whither he had set out just one week before...
...snapped on the field floodlights when Harold Gatty, who flew the world with Post two years ago, heard a faint drone from the Northwest. Another minute and Post's manager, standing near pretty little Mrs. Post in her car. shouted: "It has no lights! It must be Wiley!" and the hazy white form of a ship roared about the field, turning to land...
...Siberian settlement where he was rescued fortnight ago (TIME, July 17). He had recovered from the effects of two weeks starvation, and he was able to hobble around on his broken ankle. All he wanted now was a chance to complete the first solo flight around the world before Wiley Post could snare that honor too. His Lockheed Century of Progress was a wreck where it had cracked up in the wilderness, result of a frozen oil line. He needed another plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie...
...Stanley Randall, Alfred Hertz Rosenthal, Jacob Elliott Rubinow, William Henry Schofield, Theodore Winston Sharp, Edward Pease Shaw, Ralph Edmund Shikes, Abraham Solomon Silin, William Sowden Sims, Jr., Charles Sumner Spalding, Francis Van Vanice, Leo Waitzkin, George Beard Walker, Arthur William Well, Jr., David Maxwell Well, Seymour Joseph Wener, Charles Wiley Williams...
...Navy's present routine of sending airship officers to sea; and by the fact that the late Captain McCord had never commanded an airship prior to the Akron. On the day the committee's report was published the Navy Department ordered Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. Wiley, Akron survivor...