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After a test flight in a Curtiss single-seater pursuit airplane at Mineola, Brigadier General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of Air Service, met with an accident on landing which might have had serious consequences. The landing gear or undercarriage of the plane struck a rut and broke; the machine did not overturn, however, and the General, with the promptness of a cavalryman, released his safety belt and jumped out, escaping with a severe shaking...
Outstanding features of these new ships are: 850 feet length by 105 feet width; powerful turbine generators and entire dependence upon electrical power for propulsive energy and the operation of minor gear; speed of 33 knots (exactly 38 land miles); weight of 33,000 tons. They will be fitted with the latest giant catapaults, capable of being operated in any direction without interfering with the ship's routine or with gunfire. These catapults are for the projection of planes, giving them a flying start in a minimum distance through...
...full weight of the seaplane, with full crew, fuel and two torpedoes, each weighing 3,000 pounds, will be approximately 9½ tons. The torpedoes will be carried under the lower wings and discharged by means of a new type of releasing gear...
...Aeromarine Seaplane, type 39-B, which the society used at Marblehead, last winter, and which was "crashed" during a flight across the lake chain of southern New Hampshire to Lake Champlain last summer, is now being repaired and converted into a land plane. The reason for substituting landing gear for the pontoons is that there are better facilities for land flying in eastern Massachusetts and not that the flying and instructing which members of the society did last spring, using Marblehead harbor as a base, was a failure...
Next year the club hopes to be able to purchase another plane from the Navy and to fit it with landing gear, so that it will have a plane for use on land as well as one for use on the sea around Marble-head...