on Feb. 6 was a tall, broad-shouldered, slim man with keen, the historic trial flight of the pick-a-back machine clean-shaven face.
A quiet voice and an even quieter manner betrayed nothing of an inner excitement as the two machines rose into the air, locked together; a feeling of relief and victory as they parted in mid-air and flew off as separate machines.
The man is Major Robert Ho! bart Mayo, inventor of the Mayo composite aircraft. The flight was born of an idea he had six years ago, states the Air correspondent of the "News Chronicle."
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