Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce announced, last week, the existence of 4,134 civilian-owned airplanes, airships and balloons in the U. S. California skies are flecked with over 600 private aircraft, New Yorkers own 387. Other strongly air-minded states are: Illinois-350; Michigan-291; Texas-269; Ohio-231; Missouri-216; Pennsylvania-212. Rhode Island has nine civilian planes; Vermont, only three. Despite the heavy population of the East, Westerners and Middle Westerners are manifestly more eager to soar...
Overhead droned and Doomed in salute 100 naval aircraft. Slipped and slithered beneath the waves a goodly representation of the 98 submarines built or building, which ensure the safety of France from her friends, since the navies of her enemies have been virtually destroyed. Most potent of the new French surface ships are the cruisers Duquesne and Tourville, each of 10,000 tons, and capable of hurtling toward an enemy at 40 miles an hour...
Dutch officials of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation said indignantly that their doors were intentionally designed so that the blast of air would make it absolutely impossible for them to be opened in flight, except by the united efforts of two very strong...
Airplane: A mechanically driven aircraft, heavier-than-air, fitted with fixed wings...
Altimeter: An instrument for measuring elevation of aircraft above a given plane (usually sea level...