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...Bomber. Accustomed to excoriation by his own city's newspapers, Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York was disagreeably surprised to find himself peppered with hot linotype metal from the Press of California and particularly of San Francisco, where he arrived last week to agitate "as a private citizen" for a pardon for Thomas Mooney. As he got off the Oakland ferry, Mayor Angelo Rossi and Mayor Walker's old friend Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. seemed glad enough to see him. A band perched in a truck played "The Sidewalks of New York...
General Aviation will speed completion of its contract to build 15 twin-motored observation and bomber planes for the Army, five flying boats for the Coast Guard. Then it will abandon the Fokker name, probably will concentrate on the development of an entirely new type of transport plane for civil...
...been forced down. Few days later he made another forced landing, rendered a florid description of the daisy field where it occurred. Henceforth his nickname was "Daisy." Last week, the day of the Kidston crash, "Daisy" Waghorn and Civilian E. R. D. Alexander were flight-testing a new bomber near Aldershot, England. It went out of control at about 300 ft. Both flyers jumped. Two days later Lieut. Waghorn died-41st fatality in the R. A. F. this year...
Farewell. Flying a small pursuit plane at Fort Stotsenburg, P. I., Lieut. Marvin M. Burnside chased after a great twin-motored bomber which had just taken off, to wave "goodbye" to its pilot, his close friend Lieut. Marion Huggins. He had nearly overtaken the bomber when suddenly the backwash of its propellers hit the little plane, flung it about like a leaf, dashed it to the ground. Unaware of the occurrence, Lieut. Huggins flew on to Nichols Field, Manila, there learned that his friend was dead...
...Banging Bombs, High over Chesapeake Bay one day last week, in an Army bomber from Langley Field, Va., Capt. Robert G. Breene and Major Charles A. French were dropping explosive "eggs" into the water. Once when Major French pulled the release lever, no bomb left the ship; he yanked again. Then the officers looked overside, were horrified to see the last two bombs swinging beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still...