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...panel formerly belonged to W. H. Matthews of Bromley, Kent, who died in 1890. It was later in the collection of C. Fairfax Murray, London, and was placed in the Museum...
...plane overhead, but there was no further clue. Weather was bad. Neither Moyle nor Allen was an experienced long distance flyer or navigator. Their plane, named the Clasina Madge for the daughter of Backer John Buffelin, Tacoma lumberman, had failed twice before: once (as the City of Tacoma) when Bromley & Gatty flew it 1,200 mi. from Tokyo and were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific) Thomas Ash Jr. was unable to take it off with the necessary fuel load. Japanese authorities took last week's tragedy as further excuse for withholding...
...wall of special fuel tanks he alternately poked his sextant through a port in the roof, scribbled his computations, passed written directions to the pilot, and pumped gasoline up into the wing tanks. Hard work, but nothing compared to the ordeal of last summer when he and Harold Bromley got i.200 mi. from Japan in an attempt flight to the U. S. and then had to fight their way back to shore with a broken exhaust ring spewing carbon mon- oxide gas into the cabin. That put him in a hospital for two months. This navigating business had been...
...officers for the coming year in addition to the president include Bryce Barden 2G.B.S., treasurer, and O. B. Bromley 2G.B.S., secretary. A vice-president will probably be elected from the first year class sometime during the fall. The executive committee composed of the officers and chairmen of committees will hold a meeting within the next few weeks, but thereafter the committees will function independently...
...Lieut. Bromley first undertook the Pacific venture as a Tacoma-Tokyo solo flight early last year. His first plane, a Lockheed, was wrecked at the takeoff. Two more crashed in testflights. With the Emsco, Lieut. Bromley abandoned the westbound route because of prevailing headwinds, sailed for Tokyo with plane and navigator last July...