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Two Will Circle The Globe In 31 Days

New York May 19 (A.P.)—John Goldstrom, aviator, and E. Morris Titterington, pilot and mechanician, are out to reduce Jules Verne’s famous story “Around the World in Eighty Days’’ to 31 days.

Starting today on the Mauretania, they will follow a schedule expected to put them in Moscow a few hours after they take to the air near London.

From the Soviet capital to Yokohama they will follow the quickest and most direct route, possibly by both air and rail.

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Commander of Norge Now At Nome

Nobile Reaches Northern City with Five Members of Crew, Dirigible.

NOME. Alaska, June 2. — The motorship Hazel has arrived here with Commander Nobile and five other Italian members of the crew of the dirigible Norge which recently completed a flight across the Arctic regions. Other members of the crew will be brought to Nome on the Silver Wave.

Commander Nobile said he was glad to reach here as it was lonesome at Teller. He said the framework of the Norge was packed and ready for shipment south.

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“Sea Flea” Begins Its Hop to Spain Preliminary to Trip Across Atlantic

Illustration of the Sea Flea from popular Mechanics magazine 1928, captioned "It Won't Sink If It Lands on Water: the "Sea Flea" for Transatlantic Flights"

By the Associated Press.

MARSEILLE, France, May 13.

M. de Gasenko, French aviator, accompanied by Mechanician Bion, left Marseille at 9 o’clock this morning in his water glider, the Sea Flea, for Barcelona, Spain, and Oran, Algeria. The weather was unfavorable but the apparatus worked satisfactorily.

If the voyage is successful, de Gasenko will continue to Dakar, West Africa, and then across the South Atlantic to Buenos Aires. The aviators hoped to arrive at Barcelona within two hours and to reach Oran this evening.

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Daring Colored Girl Aviator Meets Death In Jacksonville

Bessie Coleman standing on the wing of her biplane.

Jacksonville, Fla. May 1—Miss Bessie Coleman, the daring and accomplished colored aviatrix, was instantly killed when losing control of her plane, it turned over two thousand feet in the air. and she, together with D. W. Wills, white, her publicity director, were dashed to death, while making a practice flight preparatory to an exhibition she was to hold here Saturday under the auspices of the Negro Welfare League of this city.

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Airplane Able To Fly To Moon, Says Inventor

Italian Claims Craft Would Go on Indefinitely After Leaving Earth’s Atmosphere.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.

ROME. April 27.—An airplane which its inventor claims can fly to the moon has been designed by an engineer named Gussalli at Brescia. The principle involved is entirely different from that of the air propeller.

Gussalli’s machine will make use of exhaust gas exploded violently against the fans of a turbine revolving 16,000 times per minute. The reaction against this explosion is calculated to make the plane move independently of a propeller.

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Airship “Norge” Nearly Ready For Flight Over Pole

Oslo, Norway, March 28—(AP)—Preparations for the Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight in May are nearing the final stage. On a hill just outside Oslo a mooring mast nearly one hundred feet high has been erected for the airship “Norge,” in which the flight is to be made. The dirigible, constructed in Italy, is now being inspected by Captain Roald Amundsen, who arrived in Rome for that purpose last Friday, it will soon be brought from Rome to Oslo.

The auxiliary vessel “Hobby,” which was used in the Polar flight of 1925, has left Trondhjem for Svalbardi (the new Norwegian name for Spitzbergen), with equipment or the expedition, consisting of material for the mooring mast at King’s Bay and hydrogen for the airship. A hangar has already been completed at King’s Bay.

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“High Flier” Planning Air Trip Over Everest

M. Callizo and a view of Mt. Everest over which he hopes to fly

PARIS, Mar. 4—By the simple process of flying over Mount Everest, tallest mountain in the world, M. Callizo, daring French flier, hopes to accomplish what climbers have failed many times to do.

Numerous expeditions have fought their way through the lower recess the Himalayas only to be compelled to turn back when they were within striking distance of the top. The last such expedition ended tragically. Everest is still unconquered—the world’s last rebel.

Callizo holds the world’s altitude record of 39,586 feet, the mark Lieut. MacReady, of the United States army, recently endeavored to better in a test at Dayton, Ohio. Everest is 10,000 feet lower than this, being 29,140 feet above sea level. However, exploring the summit by air is not merely a matter of achieving altitude. That would be simple enough.

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Coolidge Believes Air Fund Too Big

Regards $85,000,000 Program of Navy Conflicts With Peace Economy.

President Coolidge does not approve the five-year building program for the Naval Air Service, calling for an appropriation of $85,000,000, which has been reported out by the House naval affairs Committee.

The President considers this sum far too large to coincide with his ideas of a peace time expenditure for aircraft. He also thinks the amount exceeds what the Aircraft Board appointed by him to make recommendations for proper development had in mind.

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New England Cities Will Be Linked by Air Route

Operating Base Already Established at Portland and Boston—Plan System of Relay Planes—Tech Professor Sees Big Increase in Commercial Flying During Coming Year

Boston, Jan. 19.—(AP)—Announcement that the leading cities of New England will be linked in a air route next summer was made today at a joint meeting of the Aero Club of New England and the Boston chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. Operating centers already have been established in Boston and Portland, Maine, it was said, and negotiations are under way for connections at Hartford, Conn.