Above San Diego last week two planes collided. Both pilots hastily climbed from their cockpits, felt for their parachutes, jumped. Lieut. W. L. Cornelius was too hasty. His parachute caught on the instrument board and he was dragged to his death with the two machines which crashed, locked together. So died the second of the army's famous "Three Musketeers" (TIME, Sept. 24). At Mines Field Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was for a time the leader of this group of which Lieut. Irving A. Woodring is now the sole survivor.
Thirty-eight thousand feet above Dayton, Ohio, Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lieut. J....
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