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Last week Clem Sohn was in Vincennes, France, to do his specialty for 100,000 spectators at an air circus. While the crowd howled with delight, Sohn stepped from his Farman at 10,000 ft., pirouetted toward the ground at 2,000 ft. per minute...
...Flying Corps in the spring of 1915 he was 17 years old. The mechanically-minded son of a minister, he was already so tall (6 ft. 3 in.) that the primitive flying machines of that period could scarcely hold him. When he made his first flight in a Maurice Farman "Longhorn," with his doubled-up knees interfering with the "handlebars" that worked the ailerons, he could understand why the War Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets, DH 4's-were designed with...
...days the "folded arms" strikes had spread to Fiat (automobiles), Citroen (automobiles), Farman (airplanes), De-woitine (airplanes) Rosengart (automobiles), Licorne (automobiles), Salmson (automobiles, airplane engines), Goodrich (tires), Alsthom (electrical equipment), Panhard (automobiles) and the Paris building trades workers...
...planes were squatting before the hangar, a French Potez, and an ancient Farman. The Potez escaped with three bullet holes, but the Farman was riddled and burned impressively. When the Italians flew away a dog and a servant in the British Legation had been wounded...
...maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians. In the World War he was one of the eight original U. S. members of the Escadrille Lafayette. He got into...