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Sky Mines. A new scheme of air defense for England is being prepared by the Air Ministry under the direction of Colonel Edward B. Ashmore, who commanded London's defense during the War. Great areas of the sky will be "mined" by hundreds of captive balloons, from which huge...
Blind flight still remains a source of great peril to aviators. Brooks Hyde Pearson, air mail pilot, up in a blinding snowstorm, crashed into trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt...
The Marquis Pateras Pescara broke his own world's records for helicopter flight by remaining in the air eight minutes 13 4/5 seconds while flying 1,160 meters-about two-thirds of a mile-in a vertical line. He will now try for the prize of the Aero Club...
Lieutenants Steel and Hunt of the Army performed one of the most difficult of maneuvers, flying with wings vertical for some distance, with the fuselage supplying the lift instead of the wings-a feat only possible at the tremendous speed of the modern airplane.
At Long Island City, Harry Wills, heavy black boxer, spent most of two rounds waiting for hulking Homer Smith to regain a vertical position. Every 40 seconds for 326 seconds Smith took refuge upon the floor from the blows of the Black Panther. Between seconds 316 and 326 he could...