Word: aero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frenchmen were ill-pleased with this explanation and stormed in the newspapers that Pilot Drouhin should have carried out his plans with his countrymen. The Farman Motor & Airplane Co. published a bitter letter about its pilot having been "purchased" and sped its preparations to beat Mr. Levine anyway. The Aero Club of France said it would enter the race too, to insure a French victory...
...trust, flew its 120 planes almost four million miles last year, with some 60,000 passengers. Berlin is already linked by air to London, Paris, Moscow and the Scandinavian capitals. Next summer the German air net will be flung southward, to Madrid, Vienna and (cooperating with the new Italian Aero Lloyd) to Rome. Herr Hermann Mayenberger, operating expert of the Colon Co., Hispano-Zeppelin firm, announces definitely that in the spring of 1928 Zeppelins now building at Friedrichshafen will be flying on a four-and-one-half-day schedule between Seville and Buenos Aires, a transatlantic run now made...
Near Windermere, England, a speck circled, hovered about and landed upon the 300-ft.-by-20-foot plateau which is the summit of Mount Helvellyn, third highest eminence (3,118 feet) in England. Later the speck ascended again, soared away. It was Pilot John Leeming Of the Lancashire Aero Club who, with a bonfire on the snow to indicate the wind and crosses marking possible landing sites, sought to demonstrate upon what a small place an airplane can land...
...first event was a "flight frolic of clowns" to attract the populace. Then civilians flew an elimination heat for low-powered ships entered to win the Aero Club of Pennsylvania trophy, the first home being Basil Rowe of Keyport, N. J., in a Thomas Morse SE-4. Pilot C. S. "Casey" Jones, a celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead...
...week more than a column of matter which purported to be an interview with Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth, reopening the squabble between him and General Nobile as to who did what aboard the Pole-crossing Norge (TIME, Aug. 2). Mr. Ellsworth was quoted directly. Hurt, angry, he flayed the Norwegian Aero Club for permitting Nobile to assume prominence upon the expedition in the first instance, and specifically, for telling Nobile, lately, that he might write more than a "technical appendix" to the official book of the trip, which Ellsworth and Amundsen are compiling. Words like this came forth: "They have handed...