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When Amy Johnson, England-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2), arrived in Perth on her triumphal tour of Australia's cities, a youth climbed aboard her motor from the cheering mob, tried to kiss her. She narrowed her eyes, drew back her hand, bloodied his nose...
...individual transport companies had not gone far in their experimentation and practice when the need for coordination became evident. There was costly duplication of ground equipment and labor. There was a variety of practices which threatened to confound the interstate flyer of the future. Moreover, a central administrator was needed to conserve the few frequency channels assigned by the Federal Radio Commission to air transport operators...
Again, Soucek. Lieut. Apollo Soucek, Navy Flyer, at Anacostia field last week flew his Wasp-motored Wright Apache landplane to 43,166 ft, world record, surpassing Germany's Willi Neuenhoffen's 41,794 record. Exactly one year before Lieut. Soucek made the world seaplane record...
...president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico, asking for a $3,000,000 relief fund; 8) Charles C. Younggreen, president of the Advertising Federation of America and delegates to the Federation's Washington Convention; 9) Lewis A. Yancey, U. S.-to-Rome flyer; 10) 30 radio performers seeking publicity. President Hoover dropped work to go out behind the White House offices to be photographed with: 1) U. S. Civil Service Commissioners and staff; 2) newspaper association managers; 3) "Danish-Americans" en route to Denmark; 4) Pauline Lodge, Lakewood, Ohio, high-school girl, winner...
Miss Johnson's further objective was to beat the record of Flyer Harolc J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler who flew the same distance in 152 days (TIME. March 5, 1928).? All Britain hailed that flight?done in an 875-lb. Avro Avian at total cost of $250 ?as epochal in the history of aviation. Enthusiastic statesmen proclaimed that Hinkler "had outclassed Lindbergh...