Flights & Flyers

Chamberlin v. Dragon, Flying passengers over Brooklyn, Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin sighted a monster yellow-&-black dragon bobbing crazily about in the sky--one of the helium-filled balloons released from the annual Thanksgiving Day parade of R. H. Macy & Co. Pilot Chamberlin dived at the dragon, sheared off its head with his wingtip, carried it back to the field on his wing. Next day he received from Macy's one of the $25 rewards offered for the recovery of each monster.

Fastest? While Pilot Lowell R. Bayles flashed back & forth over the Wayne County Airport course (Detroit) in a special Gee-Bee (Grantville Bros.) racer, an unofficial stopwatch caught his speed at 307 m.p.h. Pilot Bayles is preparing for an official attempt to break the world's landplane record of 278.48 m.p.h..made in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France.

In The Dark. To add to his night-flying hours and some day qualify as a mail pilot. Pilot Lou Strickler, 18, flew in the moonlight one night last week around Latrobe Airport, Pa. Three friends who had been taking turns hopping with him waited on the ground, their automobile headlights marking the field to augment the airport's meagre lights. Pilot Strickler came in for a landing, "felt his plane hit something," learned to his horror that he had mowed down and killed his three friends

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