Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trust fund for her benefit. Meanwhile her husband was flying her with President & Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down his attitude toward public idolization, the future of flying, military aviation...
...National Air Tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy starts from Ford Airport, Dearborn, Mich...
...became an accomplished fact for the first time last week. Lieutenant James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle, 33, "best Army Flyer," did it, at Mitchel Field, L. I. Thereby he completed eleven months' experiments for which the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics borrowed him from the Army Air Corps, and which presaged the highest safety in flying through no matter what weather...
...showed to within a very few feet how far above the ground of a particular field, in this case Mitchel Field, the plane was at all times. Because the action of this altimeter depends upon barometric pressure, a variable factor, a ground crew was obliged to radiophone Lieut. Doolittle air pressure conditions. In development are more independent instruments, the sonic altimeter by Dr. Elmer Sperry and the radio altimeter by General Electric Co. They will sensitively record the time and therefore the distance which a sound or radio impulse travels from a plane to the ground and back...
...greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss Flying Service: "The mechanical perfection of the new instruments employed required thorough testing by an expert pilot before they could be judged." Harry Frank Guggenheim: "The results of the experiment will be made available to any manufacturers of planes or air transport operators who wish to consider equipping their products for this kind of flying...