Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood, struggling to piece together an air rearmament program which will satisfy Government critics when the subject comes up in Commons this week, the loss of Adviser Lord Weir was more than compensated for. Lord Nuffield, Britain's top-rank motor manufacturer, announced that he was ending his two-year quarrel with the Air Ministry. Lord Nuffield, long at loggerheads with Lord Swinton, will place his mammoth Morris auto plant, the largest in Europe, at the Government's disposal for the mass production of airframes. The motor magnate had previously turned out only tanks...
...Cedillista pilot dropped down out of the bright Mexican sky in one of the General's fast fighting planes, zoomed over the Potosi airfield where President Cardenas had established his headquarters at Vista Hermosa, dumped four ineffective 25-lb. bombs and high-tailed it back to his secret air station in the hills...
Since the Nazis took control of Austria's music, leaving the future of Austria's famed Salzburg Festival in doubt, the air from Hollywood to Paris has resounded with projects for new "Salzburgs" outside Greater Germany. While most of these projects have been evaporating in talk, certain features of the Salzburg idea have quietly come into being at Glyndebourne, an old Tudor manor in the midst of England's hilly South Downs, 60 miles from London. Glyndebourne, content to remain in character, has not proclaimed itself the "Salzburg of England." But responsible critics have acclaimed the Mozart...
...throw away an empty whiskey bottle without hitting somebody who's just invented a blind-landing system. So says Irving Metcalf, senior aeronautical engineer of the U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce. Mr. Metcalf himself has designed a practical instrument landing device. And, according to an article, "Under the Weather," published this week in FORTUNE, there are about ten dependable blind-landing systems, including "Air-Track" (TIME...
Many delays, re-routings, cancellations and accidents result not from port-to-port flight through bad weather, but from hazards of landing when the destination has been reached. FORTUNE reports that some airmen therefore hope that universal application of a workable blind-landing system would increase commercial air traffic as much as 500%. Reasons why this development has not yet been made: Airlines cannot afford field equipment ($25,000 to $40,000 per field); the Bureau of Air Commerce is authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 to spend Government money for beacons and beams between airports...