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Colyumist Kahn writes with the authority of 2,700 hours flight, including considerable test and night flying. In demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...
Workmen pounded, sawed and lugged heavy timbers about the floor of the Graf Zeppelin's great hangar at Friedrichshafen last week. They were building a "cradle" to support the big dirigible, about to be deflated and put up for the winter. While at rest on its shoring, the Graf will be minutely inspected by dirigible experts, to estimate an airship's lifetime. The Grafs record for 1930: 155 flights covering 144,275 mi. Passengers carried, 6,278; mail, 2,200,000 pieces; freight, 12,166 Ib. Zeppelin officials claimed that revenue from passenger fares met the cost...
Roaring over Buenos Aires a mysterious plane rained down Communist leaflets? the only Red phase of the entire disturbance. Promptly an Uriburu pursuit plane whirred from its hangar, prepared to chase the Reds, cracked up on the flying field, spilled out pilot and gunner mortally wounded...
...Wright Airport, first to make the flight that had cost the lives of ten before them, beginning with their countrymen Charles Nungesser and François Coli. Among the first to congratulate Coste & Bellonte in the wild crowd of 10,000 that swept over the field and stormed their hangar refuge was Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...highly than a motorcycle-but motorcycles go up to four cylinders and 40 h. p. nowadays. Plane motors of 90 or 100 h. p. sound "tinny" when the landing surface is hard enough to act as a sounding board, bringing out each explosion in bold relief. Nearness to a hangar, especially an open, empty, metal one increases this effect. And small planes sound small indeed just after listening to the giant roars of biggest planes...