Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed and sent to the Senate a bill creating a foreign service in the Department of Agriculture. ¶ Passed amid cheers and sent to the Senate the $274,000,000 Navy-building bill, authorizing 15 cruisers and one aircraft carrier, construction to be suspended by the President in case of an international disarmament conference, which he was urged to urge...
...bold experiment in giant aircraft, the Inflexible had a successful test flight at the Royal Air Force airdrome at Martlesham Heath, some 75 miles northeast of London. Capable of carrying 20 persons, the ship was taken up by Squadron Leader J. Noakes and one mechanic, each wearing a parachute strapped to his back. The Inflexible has a wing spread of 150 feet and weighs fifteen tons-the world's largest all-metal monoplane. Built on the Air Ministry's orders, her purpose is a secret...
Then, as with many another War flier, "air fever" once more laid hold of Ace Ingalls. Last week, news leaked out that he and Heraclio Alfaro, a Cleveland college instructor formerly with the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company in Cleveland, were building a plane of secret design, trying to win the Guggenheim Foundation's $100,000 prize for aeronautical progress. At the same time, people learned that Ace Ingalls was on his hometown Chamber of Commerce's aviation committee, helping to make Cleveland a bigger & better airport. Other retired fliers knew how Ace Ingalls felt when, quizzed...
...expected U. S. Congressional appropriation for the same purpose is $20,100,000. Sir Samuel startled many, last week, by announcing that a modified form of helicopter developed by the British Air Service has been successfully flown across country for 35 miles. Hitherto this species of aircraft, designed to rise and descend vertically, has been deemed impractical. The British contraption, called an "autogyro," possesses revolving wings...
...this are by no means the least of aviation's concern. Forty-eight states are seeking the perfect code to answer all such problems. Eager to be in the forefront of trailblazers, New York State last week passed "model'' bills for the regulation of fliers and aircraft and the development of aviation, suggesting: "Other states please copy...