Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vigorous, enterprising Detroit likes to be thought THE ONE centre of aviation in the U. S. It also likes to attract aircraft factories to the city. Both ends were furthered, last week, when Detroit played host to famed aviators, U. S. and foreign balloonists, airplane designers and manufacturers, 1,000 engineers, gathered to see the start of the Air Olympics...
Director of Naval Communications at Washington, Captain Wat Tyler Cluverius of the U.S.S. West Virginia and Captain Albert Ware Marshall of the aircraft-carrier Lexington were the first three additions to the rear-admiral list, of which the authorized number is 54. Three vacancies awaited their immediate promotion. In August, when Rear-Admiral Edward W. Eberle retires for age, his place will be filled by Captain Harry Ervin Yarnell, now commanding the other new aircraft-carrier U.S.S. Saratoga. Then comes Captain Arthur J. Hepburn, Chief of Staff of the Pacific battleship division. For Captain Hepburn, the added braid, honor...
...delivered by 12 "aircraft" spark plugs making 360 flashes per second, at the big model's top speed (80 m.p.h...
Last week, the U. S. aircraft carrier Lexington lifted anchor at San Pedro, Calif., bound for Honolulu. It broke the 24-hr, record the first day out, steaming 700 miles. It broke it again on the second day with 742 miles. On the third day it raced 770 miles to port. The Lexington with Capt. A. W. Marshall in command, had made the fastest sea passage ever logged between the U. S. and Hawaii, covering 2,228 nautical miles in 72 hours, 34 minutes; also the world's record for 24-hr, runs...
...purpose: to enable photographers in time of war to fly high above enemy territory and laugh at anti-aircraft guns popping uselessly beneath them...