Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the Marines have done duty, and of the work of the Marine Corps. It is expected that the pageant will be one of the most spectacular ever held around Boston. During the events in the Stadium a number of airplanes will fly over Soldiers Field and give an aerial exhibition...
Lieut. Edmund Pike graves '13, Kosciuszko Aerial Squadron...
...navy department has announced that, sometime between January 1 and July 15 next, it will carry out the greatest naval and aerial gun and bombing test ever conducted. The obsolete American warships, Iowa and Kentucky, and the eleven former German warships, allocated to the United States, will be used as targets. There is no intention of sinking the two out-of-date American vessels. Dummy bombs will be used upon them. However, the eleven German ships of later model and in good condition, will be sent to Davy Jones's locker. In the meantime congress is granting money to enlarge...
...refusing the $1,250,000 appropriation asked for the continuance of our aerial mail service, Congress has once more displayed characteriatle narrow mindedness. On the surface indication that the returns do not justify the experiment, present schedules are abandoned, further development is forbidden. Protest against such summary action has been duly forthcoming from those best informed aeronautically in the United States; President Wilson is in opposition to the move...
...disturbing accidents which have in several instances resulted fatally. Those who are convinced that mail by airplane is foredoomed to failure point to the recent retirement of a British air mail concern from the cross-channel route on the ground that winter flying did not pay. Certainly aerial letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where it can be supported as a private enterprise; government aid is the only source which can keep it going. And until human ingenuity has devised some means of rapid transportation from the postoffice to the airplane itself, the flier will labor under...