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Last week, when the enormous helium-filled alligator, pig, drum-major, etc., etc., were drifting foolishly over Manhattan and Long Island, a student flyer named Annette Gibson, 22, carrying Instructor Hugh Copeland as passenger, steered her cabin monoplane for a near view. Presently she found herself face to face with a 60-ft. striped tomcat. Yielding to impulse, Miss Gibson plowed into the bag. The punctured fabric wrapped itself about the wing, put the plane into a spin. Miss Gibson cut off the ignition, saw the rooftops of Queens gyrating toward her. Then Instructor Copeland seized her shoulder, yelled...
Spirit of Fun was the name of the plane in which Arthur M. Loew, 35, son of the late Showman Marcus Loew and vice president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was touring the world. With him were his attorney, Joseph Rosthal, and Pilot James B. Dickson, oldtime Army flyer. Last week the party was nearing Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the opening of a new theatre. At Victoria Falls they started to take off from...
...Casey" Jones's transport license is No. 13. He was a seasoned flyer long before the license was issued in 1926. He made his first flight in 1912 with a schoolboy in Rutland, Vt. Shortly afterward the friend cracked up, killed himself and a passenger. "Casey" abandoned flying until 1917 when the Army called for aviators. Already he had been rejected by Army, Navy and Marines because of a heart lesion. (He had twelve varsity letters for athletics, had been physical director at Montclair Academy, N. J. for two years.) For the air service "Casey" was examined by an enormously...
...Assistant Secretary threw himself into his work at Washington. He chummed around with the flying officers, piloted his own plane hither & yon, brought the Army air service up to top-notch efficiency under the five-year plane-building program. When Trubee Davison's college friend and fellow flyer, David Sinton Ingalls, arrived in Washington as President Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, there was the spectacle of two able, active young friends competing for Congressional appropriations...
While a new transatlantic flyer flashed across the sky last week (see above) oldtime transatlantic flyers made less conspicuous news: Brock & Schlee- In Detroit friends of round-faced William S. Brock and lean Edward Frederick Schlee took steps to restore for exhibition the monoplane Pride of Detroit in which the team flew from Detroit to Tokyo exactly five years ago. Purpose: to raise funds for Pilot Brock who lies ill of cancer in Chicago. Pilot Schlee revealed that he had paid $2.700 for the "public banquet" tendered himself and Brock upon their return from Tokyo. Post & Gatty. At the White...