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...Calshot, England, where British speed pilots were preparing for the Schneider Cup races against Italy and France on Sept. 12, a young lieutenant last week climbed into the cockpit of the Supermarine S-6, which won the Schneider Cup two years ago. He was Lieut. Gerald Lewis Brinton. 26, youngest member of the British Schneider Cup team. It was his first flight...
...officers reached the ship in a speedboat, it had risen again, upside down, with wings and tail torn off. The wreckage was towed ashore and the dead body of Lieut. Brinton removed from the tail of the fuselage, where the 'shock had wedged it. He was the eighth Schneider Cup pilot to be killed in Schneider Cup trials and elsewhere...
...planes which the British Schneider Cup team planned to race this year. Two new planes have been built, powered by Rolls-Royce motors, which are believed to be capable of achieving 400 m.p.h. In external design, they resemble the planes which won the Cup for England in 1929. The Italian planes, Macchi-designed, are intended to do better than 400 m.p.h.; each has two 1,500 h.p. Fiat motors, two propellers set in tandem. About the French planes, little is known except that they have been reported as surpassing 400 m.p.h. in secret trials. A British victory this year would...
...which finished second. Smart nearly caught up with Russell when the leader became lost over the mountains of Kentucky and failed to find Middlesboro. Later Russell had to fly back from Knoxville, Tenn., and touch at Middlesboro to escape heavy penalties. Sensation of the meet was the youngster Eddie Schneider, 19, who fell into last place by a forced landing of his Cessna and a three-day delay in Kentucky, then fought his way back to finish third, ahead of all other light planes...
...Gary Clinic, one of the country's best. The Gary Clinic now constitutes his chief contact with practical medicine. He is nominally eye & ear man for three railroads. He is head of the A. P. Gary surgical supply house which his brother established, and of the Cary-Schneider Investment Co. which looks after the family's general business interests. Right now he is guiding Dallas in the expenditure of $25,000,000 on civic improvements. His varied interests go further: fraternal work (32° Mason, Shriner), religion (Baptist), politics (Democrat). A strong argument for his election as A. M. A. president...