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Many a woman has found notoriety in "flying" record distances?with an experienced man pilot at the controls. Many another woman has announced plans for spectacular solo flights?which have never materialized. Hence, last week, the British Empire and then the world at large became aware with some astonishment that Amy Johnson, 22, golden-haired secretary, graduate of Sheffield University, was performing a prodigious feat in her flight from Croydon, England, toward Port Darwin, Australia...
...Thirty-day flight elimination course. Students are enlisted as privates, promoted to privates 1st class, Marine Corps Reserve, placed on active duty and ordered to one of the Reserve training bases for flight elimination course which carries the student through the dual instruction stage and checks him for solo flying. Students failing to qualify for solo flight are immediately ordered to their home, placed on inactive duty and discharged from the Reserve at their own request. Those students who successfully pass solo check are immediately ordered to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, for accomplishment of the second phase...
...addition to such pieces as "Saudades do Brazil" and the popular Slavonic dances, which have appeared in earlier programs, the orchestra will play a Bach suite for strings, and a Bach double concerto for two violins, strings, and flutes, together with the cello solo...
...heroes come down in flames. The author knows what he is writing about: he was there. Some of the plots: A be-monocled ground officer, never seen in the air, restores the morale of his training unit, which has just lost five pilots in crashes, by a solo flight of extreme skill and daring...
...fifty men will play a program which is expected to be of unusual interest to the average listener. It will include Gluch's overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis", a Bach suite for strings, and a Bach double concerto for two violins, strings, and flutes, together with the cello solo. The two Bach numbers seldom appear on orchestra programs, and their musical value, the players feel, is little known to the public...