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...Avions Farman, French plane builders, have followed Professor Piccard's suggestions for the secret construction of a sealed cabin plane which is supposed to travel 450 m.p.h. at 10 mi. altitude...
Near the edge of a precipice on the outskirts of Escragnolles in the French Riviera one day last week Albert Sauvant, 28, climbed into the cockpit of an ancient Farman biplane named Amour. The ''plane'' had neither wings nor motor.* Police had confiscated them to prevent Inventor Sauvant from doing what he proposed to do?deliberately crash, with himself in the plane, to demonstrate a shock-absorbing device which he said would save his life. Mechanics took hold of Amour (so named by Inventor Sauvant "because the experiment had become so dear to my heart''), pushed it across the field...
...Hards. To encourage popular flying, the Aero Club of France canvassed its first 100 pilots, found 75 of them living, many engaged in active flying. Among them: Santos Dumont, the Farman brothers, Breguet, Bellenger, Dubonnet, Louis Bleriot, holder of pilots license...
...Slogan: A Car Rolls, a Farman Glides...
...magnificent bust-up near Montélimar in southern France last autumn His Highness wrecked a brand new super-costly Farman,* strewed the highway with a tonneau full of fragile young ladies, escaped unscathed. Some three weeks ago, off the coast of Norway occurred Prince Ibrahim's latest, grandest bust-up. Five minutes after His Highness's famed quarter-million-dollar Diesel yacht Nazpermer ("Beautiful Lady") struck a rock, it sank (TIME, July 29). How it all happened, a Miss Margaret Woolf of Rochester, N. Y., cheerfully told Paris reporters last week. Excerpts...