Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fewer air accidents, in proportion to the number of planes flown, are happening. Last week the Department of Commerce, kindly Cerberus of U.S. aviation, issued its periodic statistics...
...zealous work of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce and the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, newspapers now give no more emphasis to air accidents than to motor or train accidents. And seldom do they mention the name of the plane and motor in the crash. The idea of this censorship is to avoid scaring prospective airplane owners and riders, to protect the public's air-consciousness from unnecessary jars...
...widely separate incidents of last week may be forerunners of a new mode of air transportation...
...Berlin, the Raab-Katzenstein airplane makers hitched a motorless glider to the tail of a regular plane. To the tail of that glider they hitched a second glider. This "train"-the air equivalent of a motor truck with tandem trailers-taxied across the field and managed to take off, the plane tugging, the gliders lunging after. Soon the "train" straightened out in smooth flight and without difficulty attained an altitude...
...Southern California, one Dale Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...