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...Indianapolis. She was riding with Sergeant Ralph A. Gordon, Indiana National Guard, when his plane went into a tail spin, crashed. Her death was the third tragedy among women in two weeks: Mildred Doran, Dole Flight passenger, disappeared in the Pacific; at Youngstown, Ohio, Gladys Roy, girl stunt flyer, stepped into her whirling propeller...
Landing lights at airports have been made remarkably efficient, but what about the flyer who, straying at night from his course, passes near a field at which he is not expected, of which he is unaware? That contingency, too, is now taken care of by a device invented by Research Engineer T. Spooner of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and demonstrated last week at Bettis Field,*McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large...
...Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon he appeared in Brunswick, Ga. To the merchants of that town he put his proposition. He would fly a plane alone to Rio de Janeiro...
Hours later came a vagrant radio report, unconfirmed, that Flyer Redfern had been sighted by a steamer 300 miles east of the Bahama Islands, on his course and about 500 miles out. After that, silence...
...Aloha had trouble. Three times she went into dangerous tail spins and three times pilot Jensen, stunt flyer, pulled her out. Once, flying low because only close to the sea would their compass work, they bumped a wave; and rose above it. Once the gas pump went wrong. Having no radio for bearings, three hours were wasted shooting the sun. With gas left for a half hour's flying they landed after 28 hours and 5 minutes; nearly two hours behind Goebel. Of the Miss Doran and the Golden Eagle no news. They were last sighted passing the Farallon...