Word: aircrafter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Canal Zone came the cruiser Rochester. The transport Chaumont, due at Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than...
...films, each fifteen minutes in length, comprise pictures of takeoffs and landings of various aircraft from the decks of carrier ships. Simple takeoffs from the Saratoga and the Lexington will be shown in the first reel; the second will picture catapults from a number of vessels; the third and most interesting, from a spectators' point of view, is a movie of a series of airplane crashes taken on Langley Field, where photographic records of all landings are made...
Much was made of the suggestion that Kassay was working in league with others, all directed by Soviet Russia. But both Navy Department and Department of Justice disposed of him as a "fanatic." Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle, naval aircraft inspector, and Dr. Karl Arnstein, famed chief engineer & vice president of Good-year-Zeppelin, stated that any harm Kas- say might have attempted would be rectified by their rigid system of inspection...
April 11-19?National aircraft show; at Detroit...
After a stormy trip from Wichita, Kansas, the new airplane bought recently by the Flying Club arrived on Saturday, at the flying field of the Eastcoast Aircraft Company. The plane is a Travelair trainer, and is powered by a 90 horsepower Curtis Wright Gypsy motor...