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...granddaughter is Mrs. Florence Lowe Barnes of San Marino, Calif., prominent flyer...
Writer Allen, a flyer of twelve years experience and Captain in the Air Corps Reserve, takes as premise the order issued by President Coolidge in March 1927, making eligible for the award: 1) members of the fighting services, Coast Guard and reserves flying in line of duty, 2) members of foreign fighting forces, flying in the service of the U. S. Civilians: ineligible...
...radio-beacons guide a pilot along U. S. airways. But if he wanders off the route in fog, storm or darkness, a pilot may find himself off the line of the beckoning signals just when he needs them most. Last week was brought forth a device by which the flyer, wherever he be, will be able to orient himself upon the nearest commercial broadcasting station...
Suddenly down upon the Four Winds Airfield at Madrid two days later swooped none other than Major Ramon Franco, Spain's transatlantic flyer who was imprisoned by the Berenguer Government for republican agitation but escaped month ago to France. There had been nothing to connect him with the Jaca uprising, but now he made an impassioned harangue to his fellow air officers. They armed a crowd of civilians. They flew over Madrid dropping exciting pamphlets...
Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics made known these findings concerning the strain of flying upon the flyer: bodily resources become exhausted, "staleness" sets in. The flyer loses confidence, judgment, keenness for flying; he is easily discouraged. Aviators are apt to become irritable and must guard carefully against nervous breakdown, etc. etc. Observed the Navy: "Flying is a strange pursuit for man. . . . After [he] has flown as long as he has walked, he may expect to develop the necessary resistance...