An airplane in flight was refuelled at San Diego for the first time in the history of aviation. A quartet of Army officers, after much practice, succeeded in passing a fresh supply of gasoline from one plane to another flying forty feet below at the same speed of 90 miles an hour. The fuel was passed through a 40-foot steel wire-incased rubber hose into the tank of the lower plane, and so perfect was the maneuver that not a drop of gasoline was scattered— and gasoline on hot exhaust pipes might spell disaster....
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