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Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting station at Salt Lake City: In an unofficial trial over Lake Garda, Italy, Lieutenant Neri of the Italian Air force was credited with attaining the enormous speed of 4G3.26 miles an hour in a seaplane. The fastest speed heretofore recorded record-ed was 408.8 miles per hour, made by Lieutenant SJainforth after the Schneider Trophy race. Our transport airlines do more night flying than those of all Europe. 1 ast year figures show Europe"s night flying to be only 70C,00O miles, as compared to 13,000,000 miles in America. It rains inside the Goodyear Zeppelin Zep-pelin dock at Akron, Ohio (where the U. S. S. Macon is now under construction) construc-tion) when it is clear outside. The dock is so large, 45,000,000 cubic feet, that sudden changes of temperature cause clouds to form inside and rain to fall. The U. S. navy balloon was tentatively tenta-tively declared the winner of the James Gordon Bennett Cup race on September 27 at Basle, Switzerland, and second place was accorded the other American entry, "Goodyear No. 8." The navy bag, carrying Commander Com-mander T. G. W. Settle and Wilfred iiushnell, was credited with exceeding the distance of the Goodyear entry jy about 91 miles. The new Keystone Observation Amphibian plane, equipped with a o50 horsepower motor, has been received re-ceived by the navy and is now in use on board the U. S. S. Oklahoma. It carries 144 gallons of gasoline and has a range of DG7 miles. Top speed is 148 miles per hour with a cruising speed of 100 miles per hour. It weighs 4,719 pounds. It can climb at the rate of 1400 feet per minute to an absolute abso-lute coiling of 20,000 feet. It carries a pilot, a radio operator and a mechanic. me-chanic. If the sea is calm and the air is perfectly clear, it is possible for all airplanes to see a submarine which is submerged 50 or 60 feet. While traveling tra-veling depths of submarines vary, the newer types are able to submerge about 230 feet'. The U. S. S. Lexington, aircraft carrier, left her anchorage at San Pedro, Calif., at 1:01 p. m. on June 9, 1928, and arrived at Diamond Head Light, Honolulu, at 11:08 a. m. on June 12; 2,226 miles in 72 hours, 36 minutes, an average speed of 30. G6 knots. The Graf Zeppelin, in 1929, flew frcm Lakehurst, N. J., to Friedrich-shafen, Friedrich-shafen, Germany, 24,000 miles, in 55 hours and 24 minutes. I The navy maintains racing pigeons and the longest pigeon flight on record rec-ord is 2,016 miles. This bird was bred and flown by Ensign E. S. Peterson, U. S. navy. |