Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inventors: the U. S. Air Service and the Fairchild Aerial Camera Corporation...
...Aerial news is now the breakfast stimulant of a nation. With four men blazing a path across the Western ocean and two triangular parties fighting for fame and vaudeville fortune in a race, no less, over the wearied airways of the Atlantic, the future of the featurists seems assured...
Herr von Opel told them more about rocketing. The perfecters of the idea were two German inventors named Valier and Sander. They had rocketed a racing car (without a driver) as high as 430 m. p. h., he said. They thought, of course, that they could revolutionize aerial locomotion. In the Raab-Katzenstein works at Cassel, they were completing a rocket-drive airplane, the Grasimiecke ("Garden Warbler"). Only a moderate 125 m. p. h. would be attempted with this craft. Later airplanes would be built to rocket beyond the highest flights of motored airplanes, first with laboratory animals aboard...
...Passed resolutions ordering four new investigations into unemployment, appointments of U. S. postmasters, civil service appointments, aerial coast defense. The Senate's investigations this session totalled...
...airplane magazines now crowding the newsstands, solemnly issues a warning to the industry. Good things do not last forever, says Aviation editorially, and if flying is to be maintained at its present speed, the manufacturers and commercial airlines must undertake advertising and publicity campaigns to supplement the more spectacular aerial achievements...