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...than the fastest commercial amphibion so far. To speed it up that much, Fairchild's Designer Albert Gassner (oldtime Fokker engineer) had to devise some radical treatment of the pontoons and landing gear, which are what make most amphibions slow. His solution was to make the wheel and wingtip floats fold into the wing, forming a sleek flying-boat when the ship is in flight. The engine, in a stream lined nacelle, is mounted atop the wing. A new wrinkle in amphibion design is an auxiliary 30 h. p. -motor and water propeller to be stowed in the Fairchild...
...Stunting by Germany's famed Ace Ernst Udet, who can pick a handkerchief from the ground with a hook on his wingtip...
...eight men & women passengers (no one was positive of the exact number afterward) piled into the Sikorsky amphibian and off they went. Twenty minutes later the ship glided to a landing. Crack! A slapping wave broke the starboard pontoon. Rather than taxi through the swells with his right wingtip boring the water, Pilot Vickery gunned his engines, took off for the landing field near Glenview north of the city. A mile short of that goal the weakened right wing crumpled. The plane crashed in a plowed field. Pilots, passengers, all were cremated...
Every Thanksgiving Day in Manhattan, R. H. Macy & Co. stages a parade of huge comic balloons designed by Tony Sarg. When the procession ends the balloons are released. Cash prizes are paid for their return. But after famed Clarence Chamberlin snared a yellow-&-black dragon on the wingtip of his plane last year and collected $25, Macy's announced that aviators in flight were disqualified as balloon-hunters...
...passengers over Brooklyn, Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin sighted a monster yellow-&-black dragon bobbing crazily about in the sky-one of the helium-filled balloons released from the annual Thanksgiving Day parade of R. H. Macy & Co. Pilot Chamberlin dived at the dragon, sheared off its head with his wingtip, carried it back to the field on his wing. Next day he received from Macy's one of the $25 rewards offered for the recovery of each monster...