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...Lakehurst a further difficulty arose. So much fuel had been burnt on the journey that the ship was very light. The ballast recovery apparatus installed on one engine compensated only in small part for the loss of fuel weight, and in three attempts at mooring, the drag ropes swung high above the ground crew. Finally Commander Lansdowne had to reconcile himself to "valving" the helium and allowing some 20,000 feet of the precious gas to escape at an estimated cost...
...diminish the lift of the gas bags to re-store equilibrium. Besi'des being a source of expense, this meant that there was less reserve of gas left for emergencies. A new process is now available on board the Shenandoah whereby the weight of the fuel burnt by the engines is automatically compensated for. When gasoline burns, the hydrogen it contains combines with the oxygen of the air to form water, or rather steam. In the new process the exhaust gases are cooled by huge water radiators, the steam condenses and is carefully collected as water ballast. The Secretary...
...unofficially with any organization in America or England, that I am acting on my own initiative and responsibility entirely, and that I do not wish to claim any credit for what I am doing or for the originality of the idea. I have had an experience which has burnt certain views and convictions into me and I felt that I must try to do something about it. That...
...himself on the ground that he was getting too old for letter-writing." There is another, about a Lord who was "wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice; he was, in fact, so wealthy that Mr. Otto Kahn stood at attention when speaking to him and Mr. John D. Rockefeller burnt his tongue with his hot milk at the mere mention of his name." According to his publishers, Author Arlen, aged 25, "likes dancing and baccarat and is a tournament tennis player." He summers between Deauville and Biarritz, winters on the Riviera, springs in Venice, autumns in Mayfair...
Blind flight still remains a source of great peril to aviators. Brooks Hyde Pearson, air mail pilot, up in a blinding snowstorm, crashed into trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones...