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Here again his plane was badly shot up but this time was partly controllable. Rather than bail out and allow the airplane to crash and kill residents . . . Hope attempted to maneuver to an open space and lost his life in this heroic undertaking...
...performer is Sophomore Del Ames, erstwhile protege of Otto Schniebs at Hanover and unquestionably last year's most valuable skier. Not only does he tear down mountain trails and through tricky slaloms, but he's hard to best in the jumping and cross country events. Another lad expected to crash through this season is Finn Ferner, Norwegian dare-devil who had a bit of bad luck last year when he found New England trails a little more tortuous than the Scandinavian slopes, spending most of his racing time in the woods. As far as style goes, Ferner is probably...
...flying men for their long record of safety and reliability. The first B-17 cracked up and burned on test, but since the first Flying Fortress was delivered to the Air Corps, B-17s have flown about 8,000,000 miles, made many a long hop, without a single crash, through three and a half years. Up to last week most serious damage any of the big fellows had had was a buckled landing gear. Last week the spell was broken. Flying toward the mist-shrouded San Jacinto Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Riverside, Calif., a B-17 was heard...
...Chicago sped Civil Aeronautics Bu-reaumen to investigate the third fatal crash on U. S. airliners since Aug. 30, after a flawless 17 months in which no airline passenger was killed. The cause of Trip 21's crash was a matter for public hearing, laboratory inspection of her engines, props and other remains. First news reports were that ice brought her down. United denied this report, pointed out that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time...
...crash put Franklin Roosevelt's new CAB on a hotter spot than ever. Thirteen of the airlines' perfect 17 months were flown under the supervision of the old Civil Aeronautics Authority. By Presidential order, CAA was taken from its independent status last May, made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried...