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...Wood shot ahead, in an uproar of cheers and boat whistles. Miss England III, her engines sputtering now, slowed down miserably to 49.661 m. p. h. in the fifth lap, crossed the finish two miles behind Miss America X, She had a broken throttle at the carburetor on her starboard motor, a break in the overflow pipe for water circulation that shot water into the boat instead of over the side, caused Kaye Don to wonder if he had sprung a leak...
Magnetic Declination, Azimuth. The squall struck the ship like a rock; she heeled over on her beam ends. "All hands to starboard!" bawled the officer on watch. It was too late. In 30 seconds the Niobe had capsized and sunk...
...week aboard the U. S. S. Akron while she cruised over the sea. In the morning, off Barnegat, N. J. he decided it was time for him to start for his office in Washington. Up from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze...
With a loud crack the ring on the starboard cable broke. The Akron rolled to port like a porpoise. As the ship lurched, 100 sailors in the port ground crew dragged with all their might. Some even climbed up the grab lines the better to hold down the bouncing ship.* A sudden blast of air drove the ship up, jerked the crew into the air. Most of them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared...
...gold watch, the Chicago Daily News $100. The medal was for a feat unique in the history of air transport. The St. Paul radio operator of Northwest Airways one afternoon last month pressed his headset hard against his ears to hear again a laconic message: "Freeburg speaking. Just broke starboard propeller. Flying near Wabasha." Officials scowled apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight passengers. "Freeburg talking. Motor vibrating badly." Cool, Pilot Freeburg continued to describe to headquarters how the terrific vibration of the unbalanced propeller jerked the motor from its mountings, how it lodged in a wing strut, damaged...