Word: aero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aviation's newest instruments and piloting techniques for "blind" flying and landing in fog and bad weather will be described by Lieutenant Benjamin S. Kelsey, Instructor in Aero-Photography, United States Army Air Corps, in a lecture on "Aerial Navigation and Instrument Flying" tonight at 8 o'clock at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge...
...baldish, hard-driving man of 44, Colonel Gorrell was graduated from West Point and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went to chase Pancho Villa in Mexico as adjutant of the ist Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned...
Offering a first prize of $200,000, a second of $100,000, three others of $33,000, the Aero Club of France last week announced plans for a round-the-world air race in 1937 similar to last year's England-Australia contest (TIME, Oct. 29). Start. ing and finishing in Paris in connection with the Paris Fine Arts Exposition, the race will be open to flyers of all nations, will follow in general the route taken by Wiley Post in his 1933 globe-circling record of 15.600 miles in seven days...
Both have had varied and colorful careers, ranging from Crowther's winning a post on the 1924 Olympic boxing team to Palm's serving with the 45th Aero Squadron of the A.E.F. during the War. Crowther has recently been father to a new type of one-man line-bucking machine which he will doubtless want to try out here at Soldiers Field when practice begins on March 18.RAE CROWTHER...
...Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since Katy, the Waitress, Became an Aviatress...