Word: aires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill calls for 15 cruisers and an air-craft-carrier, to cost...
...last action of the conference was to hear an appeal for the establishment of an international code of standards for airplane manufacture and certificates of airworthiness. Qualifications of those countries that belong to the International Convention for Air Navigation are fairly uniform. But the U.S. does not belong to that convention, and its lack of accord hampers the export of our planes, parts and accessories...
Sleeping Passengers. Those who have flown as passengers to a definite destination know that, except for a few minutes after the takeoff, the trip becomes monotonous. William Bushnell Stout who makes all-metal planes for Ford Motor Co. and who is an executive of both Northwest Airways and Stout Air Services, remarked at Lehigh University last week that two out of five air passengers sleep enroute. In Germany last week one George Hermann slept so soundly while the Junkers plane on which he was a passenger bucked and twisted to a crash, that he knew nothing of the trouble until...
Wave-Riding Romar. Waves, 12 to 16 feet high, curvetted over each other as the huge German Rohrbach seaplane Romar roared over them in fractious test flight last week. The Rotnar alighted, ploughed through the flapping crests, took to the sprayed air again. The test of her seaworthiness was satisfactory, pleasing...
...Fred Harvey, Inc. (operators of the Santa Fe dining cars, many a hotel and lunchroom in the Southwest); of pneumonia following an attack of influenza; in Kansas City, Mo. He, a son of founder Fred Harvey, is survived by a son Fred, polo player and director in Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (TIME...