Word: aeronautics
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...cross the U.S. in a hot-air craft, Forbes took off from Coos Bay, Ore., on Oct. 4. Last week he set down on a farm near Esbon, Kans., the geographical center of the country, which he figures to be about 20 ballooning days from the New Jersey coast. Aeronaut Forbes is not drifting East on a wing and a prayer, however. His entourage includes 16 people, a helicopter, a Corvair and a mobile home...
...Well, if it was not much like a Rugger match or punting on the Thames, Britons were having a mighty good time just the same. Half a century ago, London's Daily Mail put up a prize for the first airplane flight across the English Channel, paid French Aeronaut Louis Bleriot $5,000 for buzzing the 31 miles from Calais to Dover in his tiny (25 h.p.) monoplane in 37 minutes. Last week the Daily Mail could think of no better way to celebrate the anniversary than to have a cross-Channel race, this time between London...
...Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of the President of France, for setting the women's speed record-509 m.p.h.-in a jet fighter. Aviator: Pan American World Airways Captain Charles F. Blair Jr., the first man to fly a single-engine fighter plane nonstop across the North Pole. Aeronaut: Lieut. Carl J. Seiberlich, U.S.N., for developing new techniques in the use of low-flying airships...
...Bunce '50 President of the Lampoon, read congratulatory telegrams purportedly from Douglas MacArthur, Jules Verne, and others, the balloon was inflated with helium. Meanwhile, the crowd continued to grow at the conjunction of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets. Bunce announced that Charles C. Osborne '52, well-known swimmer and aeronaut, would arrive with a motorcycle escort to make the free-balloon flight...
...White House rose garden, President Truman presented the Harmon international aviation trophy, topnotch aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...