Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start the game with few veterans, but Captain Kirby at left end and Perry at left tackle received favorable comment for their play during the 1922 season and might cause the Crimson some worry today. Rhode Island is expected to try chiefly open spread formations coupled with a long aerial attack. Just how much they have perfected their offensive in the past two weeks is entirely a matter of conjecture, but it is doubtful if they will show much more power and finish than in the Maine defeat two weeks ago. With the University line outweighing them more than...
...kilometers. But most important of all, they achieved a complete demonstration of the possibility of refuelling from the air. Twice they received gasoline from a sister ship above them and they even got a nice, hot breakfast on a third aerial contact. The extension of this system of refuelling opens new vistas in aviation. Commercial and mail planes would be able to fly across the continent without having to carry huge supplies...
...night non-stop fight from Chicago to Mitchel Field, L. I. Flying steadily at 100 miles an hour, by moonlight to Cleveland, in total darkness thereafter, the plane completed the journey in eight and a half hours without the shadow of a mishap. This is a forerunner of the aerial sleeper. The 20th Century Limited serves the business man at present better than an airplane flying only by day, but to make a night trip to Chicago without losing an hour of the working day may be of real value...
...most experienced and careful pilots, H. De Lay, aerial daredevil, and R. I. Short, President of the Essandee Corporation, were killed at Los Angeles, the wings collapsing in a loop at 2,000 feet. A pin holding the wings to the body of the plane was only three-eighths of an inch in diameter instead of the required three-quarters, and its loosening caused the accident. Previous attempts on De Lay's life, his many enemies in the beach district, and his usually minute care in plane maintenance lead friends to believe that this is the first airplane murder...
...criticism Premier Baldwin last week announced an addition of 34 squadrons to the Royal Air Force, and an increase in the air appropriations amounting ultimately to ?5,500,000 annually. Coupled with this announcement was the hope that an agreement might be arrived at with otther Governments to limit aerial armament on lines similar to those proposed at the Washington Arms Conference...