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...peasoup fog blew in over New Jersey one day last week, just after Pilot Albert Vale and his wife had taken off from Preakness, homeward bound to Philadelphia. The mist enveloped them. It was impossible to go on, too late to turn back. They would make for the field at Paterson nearby. Cautiously Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship...
...Pilot James Goodwin Hall took off last week, with Banker Peter J. Brady as passenger, for the American Legion convention in Detroit, from New York's Floyd Bennett Airport, pet project of Banker Brady as chairman of Mayor James John Walker's Committee on Aviation. In a fog over Staten Island, the plane lost flying speed, crashed through a rooftop. Banker Brady was killed. A woman, owner of the house, was burned to death by a shower of blazing gasoline...
...repeated whenever weather permits. On eastward voyages the plane leaves the steamer 300 or 400 mi. out of Southampton, flies ahead to Southampton. Rotterdam, Cologne. Flights are attempted only between late April and October and then only when weather is good (about 90% of the time). If storms or fog occur after the takeoff, the master of the liner may order the pilot back by radio. That was done once, last autumn...
East of Moscow the fog and rain grew worse. It was much as it had been on the first flight, when the storms had beaten them down to the very treetops. At the end of 20 hr. the end came. It was near Ufa, 700 mi. beyond Moscow. Doret bailed out, landed safely with his 'chute. Lebrix and Mesmin died in the crash of the Hyphen II. Doret was vaguely quoted as saying that the engine had exploded...
...flyers' speed to 80 m. p. h.-30 m. p. h. less than the economical cruising speed of their plane. Also, the length of time indicated they were flying blind. Their compasses must'have gone wrong; they carried no radio. But they seemed unconcerned, headed for fog-bound Newfoundland...