Word: aero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Flying Club, the University Flying Club has its head quarters at the Boston Metropolitan Airport, near Norwood, where the Wiggins Airways has put their planes at the disposal of the club. The following planes are available at a very reasonable rate to the members of the club: Aero Marine Taylor Club, two Spartan Low Wings, Kinner Low Wing Cirrus Fairchild 22, Warner Fairchild 24, and other types...
When Turner began to appear in this gaudy get-up before he had made any real name for himself as a speed flyer, Cy Caldwell wrote prophetically in Aero Digest: "A pilot with nerve enough to wear that uniform and kick a half-grown lion in the pants is bound to come in first eventually." And last year Roscoe Turner began "coming in first" until today he is the outstanding speed pilot of the U. S. His rivals sneer at his clothes, at his brash statements that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country...
...retirement, newspapers found two likely ones. Of late. Editor Smith, always proud of his Democratic regularity, has been growing more friendly toward the Roosevelt Administration. He sympathized with the President in the uproar over airmail contracts. Publisher Tichenor. in addition to New Outlook, owns Spur, Sportsman Pilot. Port and Aero Digest. March number of Aero Digest contains a sizzling column by Publisher Tichenor in his ''Air-Hot and Otherwise'' department which flays the Administration's cancellation of contracts. The April issue of New Outlook will have a similar article. Another difference of opinion between Editor...
Lieutenant Phillips will give his first public lecture, "The Pilot's Side of Aero-photography," on April 18 in the auditorium of the School of Geography. During the last winter these lectures have become a permanent feature for the visiting instructors in this aerial photography course...
...Pricked ears as the air-minded Duke of Sutherland, chairman of the Royal Aero Club and whilom Parliamentary Under Secretary for War (1928-29) demanded to know what was Britain's fighting strength in the air and whether His Majesty's Government did not propose to increase...