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Mineola, N. Y., Sept. 12 — (AP) — Three days of intensive work were begun today on the Sikorsky biplane, the S-35, in which Captain Rene Fonck hopes to fly to Paris, so that the plane will be ready to hop off by Thursday. No date has been set for the start of the flight, this being contingent on meteorological conditions.
Are German seaplanes engaged in laying mines or acting as supply columns to some of their U-boats?
The movements of Nazi planes over the North Sea during the last few days suggest that this may be the case and it is generally admitted both by naval and air experts that the plan is feasible.
Lt. Com. Rosendahl Predicts Giant Airships For Travelers
INVULNERABLE IN WARS
Present Experiments But Leading Up To This, He Says—European Trip in Three Days, Is One of His Predictions.
Lakehurst, N. J., Aug. 24 (AP)—The navy dirigible Los Angeles is, in effect, a 700 foot test tube with which aviators-scientists are conducting experiments looking toward eventual complete conquest of the air by man.
JEAN SUTHERLAND ENGAGES PRIVATE AIR LINE
LONDON, August 17.—Jean Sutherland, the novelist, has engaged a private air line and is making excursions several thousand feet into the air to find an atmosphere supposed to give the right inspiration for her work.
Northwest May Soon Have Air Taxi and Freight Services Between Cities
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 10 (AP) — A new era in air transportation with installation of taxi freight and passenger services between principal airports in the principal cities is in store for the northwest as a result of the Ford reliability airplane tour.
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.
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.