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...Hornet motor flew from Detroit to New York (550 mi.) in 1 hr.. 47 min.. 21 sec., averaging 308.4 m.p.h. or more than five miles a minute. Tacked to it was a tiny fuselage just big enough to hold big Roscoe Turner, Hollywood's favorite flyer. Unofficially broken was the official world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.) held by James R. Wedell, who built Turner's plane. A huge dust storm over the Alleghenies cut Turner's speed from a maximum of 340 m.p.h...
...varsity letterman in lacrosse. After college he went into insurance brokerage in Philadelphia, settled in Ithan on the Main Line. He joined Merion Cricket and Union League clubs, raised dogs as a hobby. By March 1933 Mr. Goff had acquired 24 assorted dogs and lost considerable money in a flyer in the refractory business. ''How do you keep your Great Danes' coats so glossy?" a friend asked him. Mr. Goff replied, "Let me feed your dogs for a few weeks and I'll guarantee their coats will improve." With his wife's kitchen knives...
Good names in Italian aviation are Donati, Caproni and Stella. Renato Donati is a War flyer who has been breaking altitude records for light planes since 1927. Caproni is one of the most important builders of Italian military aircraft. Stella is a type of engine. One day last week at Montecelio Airfield outside Rome smiling young Pilot Donati stuffed himself into a gutta percha flying suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella...
...Newark, an Army flyer lent $400 to his strapped confreres...
...trying to fly the mail Army men had got themselves $250,000 in personal debt. Base pay of second lieutenants is $125 per month, of enlisted men about $21. Transferred from home stations for mail duty they have been forced to pay for their own subsistence. An Army flyer downed in a strange town with the mail must dip into his own pocket for hotel, food, taxi bill. And by last week many such pockets were empty...