Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Flying Club broke all its previous flight records for one day, when several pilots of that organization remained in the air yesterday for a total of six and one half hours...
Overture to "The King of Ys"--Lalo Air TristeLangendoen English Horn Solo: Louis Speyer Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini Two Movements from the "Fantastic Symphony" Berlioz a. A Ball. Waltz., Allegro non troppo b. March to the Scaffold. Allegretto non troppo Symphonie Poem, "Omphale's Spinning Wheel" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite, "La Glara" Casella trance of the Peasants. Brindisi. General Dance, Finale Tenor Solo: Rulon Y. Robison Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms Waltz from "Coppelia" Delibes Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt
Westinghouse Air Brake...
...jealous of the birds, though he has already learned to fly many times faster. Determined to learn their secret, Leonard W. Bonney, wealthy pioneer of the air, grown middle-aged since his first flight with Orville Wright in 1910, caught two seagulls in a steel trap padded with cloth at Mastic, L. I. For three years he studied them, scrutinizing every feather on their bodies...
...Inspired by the gull, it looked like the gull. It was named Bonney's Gull. It was fat in body with graceful curving wings. Bonney followed the bird principle, abandoned the aileron, or balancing contrivance which airplane designers have always considered an essential feature of stability in the air. His plane had new features: an expanding and contracting tail, like a blackbird's, for varying loads; variable camber in the wings, so that they could flatten out like a gull's when flying level; a varying angle of incidence to its wings, so that they could turn...