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...several companies for perfection of a controllable-pitch propeller. Or the Department of Commerce for its network of radio beacons which was in complete daily use last year. The committee chose none of those but turned to Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore for its Army bomber which can streak at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its big belly...
Oldtime airmen can recall no factual basis for the episode referred to in Air Mail, an episode which air transport men regard as libelous. Nearest historical approach to the legend is the case of the late "Al" Wilson, Hollywood stunt pilot, who jumped from a spinning Sikorsky bomber, leaving in the ship a man who was manipulating smokepots for a cinema shot. The passenger also wore a 'chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September...
...Emperor Haile Selassie orally what may happen if His Majesty is unwilling or unable to stop slave raiding into Kenya. To prepare the British public for what may happen, loyal London papers called bombing "the only cheap and effective method of pursuing the marauders," declared that against natives "one bomber is worth 35,000 troops...
...hold her until you're all clear!" yelled Pilot Bernard Gully of Britain's Royal Air Force above the droning roar of his remaining motor one day last week. With its other motor out of commission from a backfire, the ungainly Vickers Virginia X bomber wallowed heavily 2,000 ft. over Surrey. While Pilot Gully fought to right the ship, four members of the crew crawled obediently back to the tail, bailed out one by one, jerked their parachute rip cords, floated peacefully earthwards. All but Aircraftsman Lewis (who broke his leg) landed safely. Flying Officer Page...
Death in Biarritz came last week to another contemporary of grizzled Bomber Frolenko, 88-year-old Prince Alexander of Oldenburg. He, too, was typical of his generation in Russia, the group of ineffectively liberal aristocrats of the middle 19th Century. (Tsar Alexander II's liberation of the serfs did not, in the end, please the serfs because the plan made them pay-as-they-farmed.) A grandson of a sister of Tsar Alexander I, Prince Alexander became Commander of the Preobrajensky Guards at 28. In 1877 he captured Etropol in the war with Turkey. His father. Duke Constantine, gave...