Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aerial mapping in cooperation with the Navy and the results of systematic surveys from 1898 to the present come under the ken of R. H. Sargent, of the United States Geological Survey. Profiter from 25 years of Alaskan experience, he is scheduled to give an illustrated lecture at 2:30 o'clock in the Geographical Institute...
True it is that defunct Varney Speed Lines operated the first aerial extra-fare passenger service. Regular fare between Los Angeles and San Francisco was $18.95. Varney charged $25, refunded 10? a minute for every minute's delay over 1 hr. 58 min. flying time...
...Mussolini's Jew-baiting in the same issue is more effective than open condemnation. However, applied in the wrong place, as TIME did very obviously in its yarn on the use of "moteur canon" (i.e., hollow propeller shafts hurling machine gun bullets or small calibre shells) in aerial warfare, it is little more than an exhibition of Munchausen or Fibber McGee extravaganza...
...have never lacked. An engineer pure and simple, President Egtvedt kept Boeing plants small, while others, like Douglas, were overexpanding. He devoted all Boeing's energies to creating a magnificent new bomber - the great 299, now called YB-17. This four-motored monoplane is the most potent aerial fighting machine in the U. S.. has a 3,00-mi. range, 250-m. p. h. speed. Though a careless pilot crashed the first, the Army ordered 13 for $3,800,000. Two have been delivered.* This fat prize swelled the Boeing bank account, helped lift earnings from...
...week that if the Black Rapids Glacier is moving as reported, it is traveling 220 ft. per day, a world record. Attempting to find the facts, Dean James H. Hance of the Territorial School of Mines flew to the glacier, due to winds could make no landing, no close aerial inspection of the glacier; found only that "it apparently has advanced a long distance...