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...looks and gentle manners, took him away in an automobile, deserted him on a lonely highroad. The puppy made his way back. Finding that the beast survived even his own natural inclination to sniff at whirling propellers and perform in the path of descending planes, this flyer, one Waldo Robey, pilot of the Porterfield Flying School, took him 800 feet up in a plane, dropped him overboard. The diminutive body, smashed to pulp, buried itself a foot deep in the earth. . . . "Just a little prank," said Pilot Robey, grinning uneasily. E. E. Porterfield Jr. (head of the Porterfield Flying School...
...furlong trials were won by Russell, Miller, House of U. S. C., Barber, and Charles of Colgate, another double winner. The Cornell flyer lived up to his reputation as last year's champion by turning in the best time, 21 7-10 seconds, without a close follower. Russell is at his best over the 220 yard distance and runs beautifully at the finish. Lun dell forced Barber to the finish line in the second heat to take second place by inches...
They moved out of Kings Bay one dazzling polar morning, their silver ship soaring over an ocean of crystal glare. Their northward course was slightly west of the line taken by Flyer Byrd two days previously (TIME, May 17). The day was to be Ellsworth's birthday and he wondered whether fortune would bring him the present he longed for- new land, Ellsworth Land...
...provisions of the bill are so framed that ultimately every man in the Air Service will be a flyer, that at least a fifth of the pilots shall be enlisted men, that there will be an equitable promotion list for air officers, that there will be some eight instead of three flying officers on the General Staff (composed of 93 officers), that the Chief of the Air Service must be an actual flying officer...
...Miller '27 lived up to expectations and succeeded in lopping a fifth of a second from his own record in the 100 yard dash, when he led Glendenning to the tape by four feet in an even ten second performance. The Dartmouth flyer, who was expected to challenge Miller again in the furlong race pulled a tendon in the broad jump and was unable to compete. Miller, because of this, was dropped out of the 220 yard final. F. P. Kane '20 returned a double winner and a record smasher, in two beautiful races. He established a new quarter mile...