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...heavier-than-air phase, too, of Britain's military aviation is suffering evil days. Last fortnight brought the death of famed speed flyer Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 41st pilot of the Royal Air Force to die by crash since the first of the year. In London last week the Marquess of Donegall charged that Lieut. Waghorn and many another R. A. F. flyer would be alive today but for the "obsolete" type of parachute issued by the Air Ministry. This 'chute, he said, is not guaranteed to open under 800 or 1,000 ft. But Lord...
Julius M Nolte, Duluth realtor and English instructor, Phi Beta Kappa, outdoor man, War flyer, father of four, won third prize...
...Moth planes were out of commission.) Then in London, great activity began. Capt. Ralph Raynor of the British Royal Signal Corps, who is engaged to marry young Courtauld's sister, organized a relief expedition with the unlimited backing of the elder Courtauld. He hired Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish flyer who last year attempted an Arctic flight to the U. S., to fly to the rescue in a big Junkers seaplane. Last week Capt. Ahrenberg flew over the Greenland ice cap, saw below him a sturdy party of four men following a dog team. Leader Watkins had succeeded...
Reported Engaged. Alicia Patterson, flyer, daughter of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (Chicago Tribune), divorced last October from James Simpson Jr. who is the son of James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; and Peter Grimm,? Shanghai business man whom she met on shipboard while enroute to Tokyo from a hunting expedition in French Indo-China; in Tokyo, Japan. "It is absurd!" said Miss Patterson. "I never was alone with Grimm except for half an hour...
...nature and embarrassed by his present position as a Fokker testpilot: "I don't know where Tony got all his information; but there are no mistakes in it." From Noville in Los Angeles: "Byrd commanded, and the rest of us, including Balchen, took orders. Acosta was the best flyer aboard." From Acosta in New York: "If I had anything to say to Tony I'd say it to his face." According to the New York Evening Graphic, Acosta also said: "So far as Anthony Fokker and his book are concerned, he can go to hell...