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...sound of an airplone motor in the sky is no novelty to the citizens of Mineola, L. I. Planes from the airport began to drone aver the town in 1917; they have never stopped. Mumbling like bumblebees by day, complaining by night like mosquitoes brushed, for their plaguery, from the beard of their God, their noise has jarred through the brains of the townsmen, mingling its drowsiness with the reveries of sleepyheads until that jargoning has become part of the normal somnolence of the place, part of the indistinguishable murmur of the summer countryside, the wash of the salt...
...half a ton of freight born aloft by its metal wings, the Maiden Dearborn, fledgling of Henry Ford's fleet of aeroplanes, made her first voyage. Rising from the ground at Dearborn, Mich., she flew, in a morning, to Chicago, unloaded and reloaded and returned to the Ford airport at Dearborn the same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul...
...airplane and the dirigible company are spending money freely in experimentation, with returns only in the future. It is because they believe that aircraft will revolutionize transportation, and because they want Detroit to be the center of manufacture for the equipment of the air. They have recently donated an airport to the City-a model of its kind. When Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the ZR3 in its trip across the Atlantic, visited Detroit, Henry Ford invited him to bring the huge ship to Detroit. "We'd have no place to tie up. We'd have to have...
Returning to Boston for the first time since his triumphal landing at the Boston Airport last September after the globe-encircling flight of the Army fligers, Lieutenant Leigh Wade will describe his experiences of the flight at the Union, tonight. The meeting will take place at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union and will be open to all members of the University...
...world-fliers are not the cheery men who landed gaily in Croydon, London's airport, and adjourned merrily for refreshments of a pre-prohibition character. They are tired-out and nervous. The last few flights seemed to have worn them down more than the previous 18,000 miles. Certain differences of temperament and opinion have brought sharp criticism and retort from formerly friendly lips. And the uncertainty as to further advance is harrowing. Also they are broke. The Government allowed them $8-a-day expenses on the world flight and they will have to account for every dollar...