Word: aero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers, and 15,000 enlisted men, ($89,000,000 had previously been appropriated for naval aviation.) Simultaneously the President nominated and the Senate ap proved Edward P. Warner and Frederick Trubee Davison as Assist ant Secretaries of the Navy and Army, respectively, to direct aviation. Edward P. Warner, skilled aero-engineer and aerodynamicist, young enthusiast, has been professor of aeronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also conducted a post-graduate course for army and navy officers. Said the New York Times: "A better appointment could hardly be made." F. Trubee Davison. In the summer of 1917, people...
...Partridge had just left Minneapolis on the inaugural southbound trip of an air mail service between there and Chicago.* Three of the five other pilots flying the new route that day were blown astray. Partridge is believed to have had no parachute. Colonel Charles M. Dickinson, president of the Aero Club of Illinois, the body that has the Government contract for the new route, was reported as having blamed Partridge's death on "a law just passed by Congress levying fines on pilots late with their mail." Col. Dickinson was either misquoted or mistaken. No such law exists...
...Eskimo appetite is prodigious, measurable only by the amount of food available; that thieving is unknown among them; that at their indoor social gatherings it is customary for one and all to sit stripped to the buff; that if land is ever discovered beyond Barrow, and utilized for an aero base, Manhattan may be within two days and a half of Tokyo. Besides such statistics, human interest, personalities, abound. The one maddening thing is, that for a book written by a camera man, this one is most stingily illustrated...
...Rome. The distinguished company gathered about the air leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen...
Died. Palmer Hutchinson, 28, correspondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance, while "covering" the U. S. Aero Expedition; hit by an airplane propeller at Fairbanks, Alaska. (See THE PRESS...