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...just set it up to shoot at, expecting to break it as soon as the superfortress (150 ft. wingspread) is equipped with bigger engines. Two days prior, the same ship climbed to 8,200 feet with a 15½-ton payload (world's record). Smaller Boeing "fortresses" (YB-17s, 105 ft. wingspread), carrying five-ton loads, established new altitude (23,800 feet) and speed (205 m.p.h.) records for a 621-mile course. Another "fortress" climbed to 33,400 feet carrying five tons (world's record). In time for the party at Wright Field, a brand new Boeing...
...world hop in 1924, and his Third Wing with 756 officers and men, 47 pursuit and attack planes. Commander of the Second Wing, based normally at Langley Field. Va., temporarily at Middletown. Pa., was Brigadier General Arnold Norman Krogstad, whose bombardment squadrons include nine of the famed Boeing B-17s, four-engined, 3,400 horsepower, 16-ton "flying fortresses...
Northrup A-17s and 17-A attack. Attack planes were first developed by the U. S., combine speed, light bombing, immense firing power to harry bombers and ground forces. Like the Seversky pursuits, the Air Corps' newest attacks-13 Curtiss twin-engined A-18s - were grounded last week by structural or motor trouble. The Northrup A-17s and 17-As have 190 m.p.h. speed, 600-pound bomb capacity, gunfire rate of 4,000 rounds per minute...
...pounds--Freed (H) defeated Richer: fall, 6m. 126 pounds--Schvenberg (H) defeated Gaylor: fall, 3 m., 18s. 135 pounds--Murray (H) defeated Biggs: fail, 4m., 56s. 145 pounds--H. W. Richardson (H) defeated Candy: fall, 5m., 17s. 155 pounds--H. E. Richardson (H) defeated Scott: default. 165 pounds--Bones (H) defeated Hartshorns: fall, 2m., 40s. 175 pounds--Lacey (H) defeated Daniels: fall...
...John Harvard died September 14, 1638, leaving half his estate, amounting to *779 17s 2d, and his library of over four hundred volumes, to the College...