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...interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load up with a lot of gas? ... I didn't really have the ship 'wide open'; but I don't think the flight can be made much faster...
...bombers won hands down. Flying at an altitude of only 2,000 ft., two flights of Harts passed over a Redland airdrome in a surprise attack before the interceptors could rise and engage them. Umpires announced that with a full load some of the new day bombers were 20 m.p.h. faster than the machines designed to destroy them. Second day of the maneuvers Redland's defenders gave up hope of beating Blueland in the air, concentrated on raids against Blueland's bases just as the fast bombers were taking...
Aerocrete, a light concrete building material which rises like leavened bread, has passed the fire, load and water tests required of flooring materials in New York, it was announced last week. A Swedish discovery, aerocrete has been used in Europe for a decade to construct building parts which are not subjected to much weight (floor filling, roof blocks). Two years ago, Aerocrete Corp. of America introduced it into U. S., worked with Columbia University's Civil Engineers to improve the material, make it strong enough to be used as a structural flooring...
...thick kept a temperature of 139° to 207° F. during the last hour of a four-hour fire of 1,825° F. blazing underneath. (The maximum temperature of a burning fire proof building averages 1,700° F.) The same floor when cooled resisted a load of 450 lb. per sq. in. with deflections ranging from...
...When the waters recede, the fish congregate in stagnant pools. Last week, men in hip boots, were skimming these pools with nets. Every year the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries tries to save the Mississippi's stranded fish before the summer sun dries up the pools. Hauling up load after load of suffering fish, the rescuers return them to the main stream of the river or ship them away to stock special preserves. Black bass, pickerel pike, pike perch, white bass, yellow perch, crappies cannot stand crowding, bad water, must be rescued first. Buffalo fish, carp and catfish...