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What Reporter Knickerbocker stated, and what his editors seemed to overlook, is that the Rohrbach experiment so far "is only a millennium on paper." Nor is the Rohrbach principle entirely new. Dr. Rohrbach, a builder most famed for his seaplanes (Rohrbach "Rostra." Rohrbach "Romar") has been working on the revolving-wing theory with infinite care for more than two years but has not progressed beyond preliminary wind-tunnel tests...
...Arnauld de la Perier of the German cruiser Emden. In dedication they flew over the pass, dropped a parachute with a, German and a U. S. flag attached. The 'other christening was by Luft Hansa, German air transport company, who named one of its huge new trimotored Rohrback-Romar transoceanic planes the D ok tor Eckener...
...Rohrbach-Romar Wreck. Furious was Dr. Adolf K. Rohrbach, head of the Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau, who was in Manhattan last week. One of the three huge trimotored Rohrbach-Romar seaplanes his company has built for Luft Hansa's trans-Atlantic service crashed at Travemuende, Germany, floated for 90 minutes, then sank. Thirteen passengers and crew were saved. The crash was due to test flying at low speed. The sinking was because hull portholes and bulkhead doors had not been closed as Dr. Rohrbach had ordered...
Wave-Riding Romar. Waves, 12 to 16 feet high, curvetted over each other as the huge German Rohrbach seaplane Romar roared over them in fractious test flight last week. The Rotnar alighted, ploughed through the flapping crests, took to the sprayed air again. The test of her seaworthiness was satisfactory, pleasing...
...Lloyd George is not often placed in the position of Cassandra, but a modest share of disbelief usually attends the prophecies of a statesman. His prediction of a "peace of the English" is not likely to prove an exception. Centuries ago a Romar, far from the golden mile-stone, was secure in a barbaric world, because the legions were eager to enforce the Pax Romana with their broadswords. While it may be true in the present age there can be no peace in the world without an understanding among the English speaking nations that war shall be prohibited yet unless...