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...easily "stolen the show." As a final touch, a plane from the Saratoga equipped with a special hook flew up to the silvery dirigible Los Angeles which had been idling aloft all day, and attached itself, exchanged messages, detached, glided back to the Saratoga-first time such a feat had been attempted over the ocean...
...Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving...
Spectacularly Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams, crack airman, served the U. S. Navy for 13 years. Spectacularly he made his exit last week, having resigned in protest against sea-assignment (TIME, April 21). Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like...
...controls. Many another woman has announced plans for spectacular solo flights?which have never materialized. Hence, last week, the British Empire and then the world at large became aware with some astonishment that Amy Johnson, 22, golden-haired secretary, graduate of Sheffield University, was performing a prodigious feat in her flight from Croydon, England, toward Port Darwin, Australia...
...womanly feat Elinor Smith. 18, flew a Bellanca at Roosevelt Field to between 30,000 and 32,000 ft. At the top she fainted, recovering after a sharp dive. Previous female altitude record: 23,996 ft., by the late Marvel Crosson...