Word: aero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present at Langley Field last week was NACA's most violent critic, Publisher Frank A. Tichenor of Aero Digest. In his March issue Publisher Tichenor reopened his recurrent bombardment of the committee, charging that it fails in its stated purpose "to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight"; that the committee is not creative, merely a measuring agency of work originated by others; that its $1,488,000 Government appropriation could be saved by merger of the laboratories with those of the Bureau of Standards, the Army Research Department at Wikht Field, or the Naval...
Seated in the Hall of the Caesars on Rome's Capitoline Hill last week were some 50 pilots and navigators who have flown across oceans. They had been convened as the first International Congress of Transoceanic Fliers by the Italian Aero...
...Advanced students may take up aero-photography and aero-survey under the famous Captain A. W. Stevens, learning the technique of this new auxiliary of exploration and surveying. Another advanced course is called "Research in Mathematical Geography and Geographical Exploration," and is for those qualified to undertake original investigations in the field or laboratory...
...spring of 1914, I landed a Sloane-Deperdussin monoplane, 50 h.p. Gnome motor (some power fer them days, by gravy!) in the sheep meadow at 66th Street. Was arrested for something-possibly, publicity for the cop who arrested me- and discharged by Magistrate MacQuade next morning. The Aero Club of America suspended my license for six months. If I remember correctly, George Beatty landed a Model B Wright on this same field at least two years before I did, and the late Blair Thaw turned the trick along about 1915 with a private plane built for him by Harold Kantner...
...France, the two nations who were to challenge England's possession of the Cup, announced that they would be unable to participate in the races unless they were postponed for six months. Both gave as reasons bad weather, ill luck and loss of pilots and machines. The Royal Aero Club consulted the contest rules and announced that no such postponement was possible, that England's planes, unofficially reported to have flown faster than 400 m.p.h., would hold speed trials of their...