Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian aviation." honored by Tsar and nation. During the War his huge Sikorsky bombers had a reputation for coming back. Of the 73 completed, only one was shot down in the course of 400 flights into enemy territory. From a Sikorsky bomber was dropped the first 1,000-lb. aerial bomb...
...airtight gondola with its ton of scientific apparatus and 4,200 Ib. of buckshot ballast. In climbed the crew: Major William E. Kepner (pilot & commander), onetime assistant navigator of the Los Angeles, winner of the 1928 Gordon Bennett international balloon race; Capt. Albert W. Stevens (scientific observer), famed aerial photographer; and Capt. Orvil A. Anderson, longtime lighter-than-airman...
World's first aerial sleeper service was launched by Eastern Air Transport last autumn (TIME, Oct. 16) when an 18-passenger Curtiss Condor with two berths (upper & lower) was assigned to the night run between Newark and Atlanta. When airmail contracts were cancelled in February, Eastern Air discontinued the night run to Atlanta and, with it, air sleeper service. When the company began flying mail again three months later, the sleeper service was not resumed...
...Airlines' sleepers with many a capacity load. Encouraged by its success, American Airlines last week inaugurated sleeper service on its six-hour New York-Chicago night run. using 160 m.p.h. Curtiss Condors with twelve berths, upper & lower. The same length as Pullman berths but nine inches narrower, the aerial berths are convertible by day into roomy club chairs...
...flight up the coast from San Diego, Calif, to Dutch Harbor. Alaska, and return. Simultaneously the War Department awarded proud Mr. Martin a $3,195,450 contract to build for the Army Air Corps 81 more of his famed "YB" bombers-most formidable weapon yet developed for aerial defense...