Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...
...Aeronautics. Last year Secretary Ingalls put on a whopping good show over New York City and the Eastern coast, fixed the Navy's air service firmly in the public mind (TIME, May 19, 1930). This year Secretary Davison was determined that the Army's green-&-yellow aerial arm should outshine the Navy's silver planes...
Segments of the green snake came from Mitchel Field, N. Y., from Kelly Field and Fort Crockett in Texas, from Crissy and Rockwell Fields in California, from all over the country. When the armada assembled at Wright and Fairfield Fields in Dayton, it became a dire aerial weapon capable of firing 2,000,000 shots a minute or loosing 100,000 Ib. of bombs. Its title: The First Provisional Air Division...
...parachute issued by the Air Ministry. This 'chute, he said, is not guaranteed to open under 800 or 1,000 ft. But Lord Donegall made no reference to the need for 'chutes, viz: the frequency of crashes. One theory lies in Britain's peculiar problem of aerial defense. More than any other form of aggression Britain fears a bombing attack from the Continent. Hence she has concentrated upon development of "interceptor" planes, some of which can reach an altitude of 25,000 feet in 17 minutes. Such speed and high rate of climb can be built into...
...other 35 winners included stenographers, doctors, spinsters, a Finnish lumberjack, a Swiss nurseryman, an aerial photographer, a chauffeur, a welder, two dentists, two locomotive firemen...