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Clarence Duncan Chamberlain, New York-to-Berlin flyer, started on a lecture tour of the southern states in a Sperry-Messenger plane last week. He did the first lap through a snowstorm, and will do 5,000 miles in five weeks. His plane has a 26-foot wingspread...
...great white albatross soared round and round a South Atlantic ship. For days it followed, never lighting, snatching small fish from the waves, offal from the ship's wake. Sailors caught the albatross and aerodonetists studied its 17-ft. wingspread, its 4-ft., 25-lb. body. The albatross is the largest and strongest of seabirds, and scientists have tried to learn from it the method of its easy flight. At London last week Capt. Victor Dibovsky-43, aviator since 1908, inventor of gears to permit the firing of bullets through the revolving propellers of airplanes, winner of a British...
Imagine a gigantic yellow bird, with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline...
...Martin bomber as official type for the national bombing fleet, which numbers at present, in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines, etc., about 100. The Cyclops is a monster many times as formidable, many times as agile as its fabled namesake.* Standing more than 20 ft. high, with 85 ft. of wingspread and a 13-ft "gap" (between her two wings) she will be driven by her single Packard motor (an 825-h.p. V-type) at 110 m.p.h. Her propeller is enormous-a 15½-ft. traction blade, of such thrust that it is geared to one half the motor...
...week, with the Sikorsky ship a-testing, the public had all but forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters, 425 h.p. apiece, brought over, installed and tested by the makers mechanic She will carry seven tons of gasoline, 1,500 lbs. of oil, enough for 4,300 miles (about 700 miles margin for defection or head winds...