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...point owing to weather, engine or equipment defects. No one was injured. Two planes landed ahead of the field at Glendive, Mont., the following day. On the afternoon of the third day 12,000 people waited eagerly at Felts Field, Spokane, for the winners. To while away time, Army flyers stunted over the field. Specks appeared in the eastern sky. The winner of the Class B race was C. W. Meyers of Detroit, flying a Waco plane. Twelve minutes ahead of Flyer Meyers had landed C. W. Holman of St. Paul, flying a Wright-motored Laird biplane. He was winner...
Handwriting. Newspapers last week printed the last words of Paul Redfern, lost flyer to Brazil. In scratchy manuscript, dropped to the deck of the steamer Christian Krogh, the facsimile read: "Point ship to nearest land, wave flag or handkerchief once for each 100 miles. Thanks, Redfern...
Another boy constructed a glider and flew 1,000 feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...
...Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim was, obviously, wealthy. Early this summer Capt. Leslie Hamilton, British War flyer, commercial stunt flyer called the "Flying Gypsy," besought her backing for a transatlantic flight. The Princess trusted Captain Hamilton. For many years she had known him and flown with him. She advanced the money...
...Again Flyers James Medcalf and Terry Tully jumped up from London, Ontario, and pointed east. This time they fought fog. Far south of their course and unable to proceed they surrendered to the fog. In a farmer's field at Washburn, Me., the Sir John Carlmo came down undamaged. ¶ The same day the Royal Windsor jumped up from Windsor, Ontario, and headed east. Late that night a telephone tinkled tidings to tho world from St. Johns, Quebec. The Royal Windsor had landed with one wing afire. The blaze was extinguished. Regretfully Flyers Clarence Schiller and Phil Wood took...