Word: aircrafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frost formed upon his goggles. At about that time another airplane arrived?too late?at the airfield below, bringing another naval flier with a pair of electrically heated goggles that will not frost. The bringer of the goggles was Zeus,* brother of Apollo Soucek, coming from the Philadelphia naval aircraft factory...
Like twelve fat vegetables in a soup plate, twelve great balloons nestled in Pitt Stadium at Pittsburgh. The evening light was fading as the first bag, piloted by W. A. Klikoff and Pete Lawson representing Aircraft Development Corp., slowly rose into the air and, once above the rim of the stadium, swam rapidly away in a brisk westerly wind. One after another the rest of the bags rose and floated away...
...Without saying so officially, Ambassador Gibson conveyed unmistakably to correspondents that he had received from President Hoover a draft formula or naval "measuring stick," in which "A" stood for age, "C" for calibre, "D" for displacement. The list of categories remains as under Calvin Coolidge: 1) Capital Ships; 2) Aircraft Carriers (both of these already limited under the Washington Conference Treaty); 3) Cruisers; 4) Destroyers; 5) Submarines. With correspondents Mr. Gibson went so far as to indicate, several days after his speech, that the British had not even yet asked for details of the "A. C. D." formula, though they...
...United Aircraft & Transport announced last week the acquisition of Stout Air Services Inc., since 1927 a passenger-carrier between Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. The Stout line with Boeing Air Transport (San Francisco-Chicago) are to be the nucleus of a transcontinental system...
...Guggenheim Fund safe aircraft competition will be derided next October. A dozen airplane manufacturers are enlisted in it already. U. S. entrants are Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall Inc. of Buffalo, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, and Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. If they do not win the $100,000 first prize, they may get one of five $10,000 "safety" prizes...