Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many occasions before this Captain Stevens has taken pictures of the curvature of the earth with the aid of infra red rays. In the hall of the Geographical Institute among a collection of his aerial pictures there is one example of the curvature. Pictures taken on this flight from such a great height should produce much better studies of this phenomenon...
...warmth they elicited, the cheerleaders might just as well have slapped the fair back of Emily Post. Their violent antics were silently watched with grins of amused condescension. A slight interest was taken in the aerial performances, not of the hurtling pigskin, but of the paper airplanes. A flimsy glider would set a new record for distance flown; thunderous applause would echo from the stands. The befuddled gladiators would turn quizzical faces to the crowd, wondering what they had done to win so much praise. A small boy who was collecting the paper craft was advised to go out into...
Stothard of Cambridge won a very slow mile from Jack Scheu in 4:26.4, the Crimson captain making a desperate bid on the last lap but failing to overtake the fleet Briton. Koith Brown, lanky aerial artist from New Haven, set a new meet record in the pole vault when he cleared the high stands at 14 feet...
...when this climax to the three-day aerial spasm finally arrived, vengeful Colonel Turner was sorely disappointed to learn that United Air Lines had forbidden its valuable "Benny" Howard to fly in any of the hazardous pylon races. Still, the Colonel found some consolation in the thought of beating Mister Mulligan, which was entered under the skillful guidance of little Harold Neumann of Moline, Ill., who had already walked off with the rich Greve Trophy in Designer Howard's atom-small White Mike. The Labor Day crowd of 80,000 was overwhelmingly behind the gaudy Turner and the same...
Year later Wiley Post took a job as aerial chauffeur for Oilman Florence C. Hall who had bought a Lockheed Vega monoplane, called it Winnie Mae after his daughter. When one-eyed Pilot Post had piled up 700 hours air time, the Department of Commerce gave him a physical waiver and a license. In 1930 Oilman Hall bought a new Lockheed Vega also called Winnie Mae. In that ship Post quickly got national attention by winning the 1930 Bendix Trophy Race, scooting from Los Angeles to Chicago non-stop in 9 hr. 9 min. With laconic Australian Harold Gatty...