Word: aero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formed a new $1,000,000 Grover Loening Co. for pure aero-dynamic research. Mr. Loening is president and chief engineer of his new concern. He can spend its money on research as he sees, fit. He intends specifically to continue work on his small mono-wheel amphibian and in general to make planes faster, lighter, easier to learn to fly in. He admitted that he might attempt the design of a Schneider Cup racer. He said he would accept research work for any firm engaged in air craft manufacture. With his strong governmental connections, he hoped for contracts from...
...Fund financed Lindbergh and Byrd in their undertakings. Fund money supported a weather service on the Pacific Coast, which the U. S. Government now runs. More money went to help the Royal Aeronautical Society (England), Aero-Club de France, Associazone Italiana d'Aerotecnica, Aero Club von Deutschland to collect and disseminate important technical information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes...
Polar Fears. Polar Explorer Fridtjof Nansen persuaded the Aero-Arctic Society to hire the Graf Zeppelin for a North Polar excursion next May. Preparations went smoothly until last week when Dr. Hugo Eckener asked his crew whether they would go. His age (61) and physical condition would prevent his going, but Captain Ernst Lehmann, who piloted the airship on her last trans-Atlantic voyage, would lead. Half the crew, remembering the wreck of Explorer Mobile's Italia, refused to endure the anticipated arctic hardships, dangers. Captain Lehmann refused to travel with the newly trained men he would be obliged...
...years ago met with Orville Wright, Glenn Hammond Curtiss and other flyers, also with Henry Ford, and suggested ways of industrializing aviation. But until last week he did not enter the field himself. His present essay was to become the largest individual stockholder in the General Aero Corp. and to sell it the Atlantic City Motor Speedway, which he controlled, for a passenger airport...
...Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane; Doyle Aero Corp. was producing commercial biplanes; a 400-acre municipal airport was under construction; Curtiss Flying Service was building a 360-acre airport...