Word: aero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elected. Dr. Hugo Eckener of Germany, 62, Graf Zeppelin commander; to be president of the Aero Arctic Society, succeeding the late Fridtjof Nansen of Norway (died May 13); in Berlin...
After the War, no longer rich (but he is rich again today) Researcher Lawrance secured the help of friends and relatives and founded Lawrance Aero Engine Corp. While his wife, the former Emily Dix (granddaughter of famed John Adams Dix, onetime governor of New York) disposed of part of their Long Island estate to raise funds, he completed his nine-cylinder models. By that time Wright Aeronautical Corp. foresaw the collapse of the market for water-cooled types which it had been building. In 1923 Wright bought out Lawrance Aero Engine Corp. and acquired the founder. Soon afterward the Whirlwind...
Sept. 6?Close of Fifth International Air Congress; auspices of the Royal Aero Club; at The Hague, Holland...
Honored. With knighthood in the French Legion of Honor: Daniel Guggen- heim, for the international services of his Fund for the Promotion of Aviation and for his gift of a library to the French Aero Club...
...southerly breeze out of Houston, Tex. last week to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Carried east by the shifting wind, ten of the bags were downed by storms near Texarkana, Ark. Two, the Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start, was the Goodyear Zeppelin, piloted...