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...When the engine refused to start, two young mechanics applied a compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...
...trial flight Capt. Heinen had landed his blimp in 46 sec. He was planning to make the gondola detachable from the bag, for operation on earth as an automobile. At the end of the flying season, the owner might deflate the bag, store it in his garage...
Blimping. Like a windstreamed globule of silver, the Goodyear-Zeppelin baby blimp Mayflower floated down upon the afterdeck of the liner Bremen as it approached New York harbor last week. Into the gondola stepped Goodyear President Paul Weeks Litchfield to be borne to Grand Central Air Terminal, thence to his Manhattan hotel, two hours ahead of other Bremen passengers. Since 1925 when the first was built, the Goodyear blimps (Pilgrim, Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Vigilant, Defender) have advertised the company by flying about the country...
...each other, to rotate about a vertical axis. Each wing is equipped with a propeller, shaft-driven by a central Wasp motor mounted horizontally in the axis. Also to each wing is rigged a controllable "flipper," comparable to an aileron. Beneath the entire assembly is a tiny two-place gondola with nearly conventional controls, landing gear, rudder...
...done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p. h., from smashing into a gondola filled with sand. All the passengers were killed. It was the worst air accident in U. S. history...