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...juniors were Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. V. Settle, U. S. N., winner of the James Gordon Bennett Trophy in this year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 10); and Ward Tunte Van Orman who finished second. They had just returned from Europe via Graf Zeppelin and South America...
...been surpassed-1,172 mi. Other oldtimers. proud of their kinship in the venerable clan of ballooning, came to congratulate Settle and Van Orman. (Their respective copilots were Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, a portly, moon-faced Navy officer; and Roland J. Blair who, like Pilot Van Orman, works for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.) There was white-shocked Capt. Horace B. Wild, 61, who 40 years ago exhibited two 'chute-jumping goats and later (1905) became the dare-devil aeronaut of Chicago's "White City" amusement park. His eyes are still red and watery from a 1910 crash which...
...definite fear when his brother, a War aviator, was shot down and killed. But shortly after that when he was transferred from the navy to the air service, he had to go. At first he tried to deceive his mother by telling her he was to go aboard a Zeppelin, which was supposed to be safer than an airplane. But when one Zeppelin after another was brought down in flames, he had to calm her by admitting he was a plane pilot...
...TIME erred July 11, p. 28, under the heading Aeronautics. Says TIME: ''No one last week could read the Los Angeles' future. . . . Her crew will doubtless be assigned to the U. S. S. Alacon, the metal framework of which was completed last week in the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock in Akron, Ohio, while a delegation from Macon, Ga., waved flags. . . ." As a member of the Macon delegation in Akron on this occasion, I can say without reservation that no flags were waved. Only a ribbon inscribed, modestly enough, "MACON. In The Heart Of Georgia" graced the left lapel...
With his wife and comely daughter, Dr. Hugo Eckener, famed airship master, was jaunting through Germany in his shiny new Maybach-Zeppelin touring car, long, low, slate-blue with dark blue upholstery, glittering nickel. Gawpers along the way noted that he drove clumsily. Near Kempten he tried to pass another car, smacked into a tree, knocked it down, wrecked his car. Dr. Eckener & family were thrown clear, not badly hurt...