Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose by the Brothers Tex, Dick & Bud Rankin, noted airmen of the West...
Should that principle be universally applied, the effect would be equivalent to creating a fence 500 ft. high around every airport. And as approved aircraft have a minimum gliding ratio of 7-to-1, airmen have computed that 3,500 ft. would have to be added to each dimension of the present average airport for planes to clear the edges at the prescribed altitude...
...traverse State boundaries. But there is no uniformity of rules or ground facilities, except between countries which have entered into special treaties. Although highly adaptable to international transit, aviation is proceeding along markedly nationalistic lines. For this reason the League of Nations transit organization at Geneva has asked eminent airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must be considered from an international standpoint." Dr. Hugo Eckener and General Italo Balbo, Italian...
...Airmen are reluctant to credit the lightning theory in general because evidence, in virtually all cases, is lacking. The Department of Commerce has no cases on record where it was definitely established that a plane was struck by lightning. Extensive ground tests with artificial lightning conducted by Ohio Insulator Co. upon a Barling NB3 monoplane produced no material damage, but did give rise to a belief that the psychological (also blinding, deafening) effect of a lightning flash close at hand may incapacitate a pilot long enough for disaster to occur...
London and Winnipeg are separated by twelve days travel. But a straight line drawn from North Scotland to Winnipeg passes across the middle of Greenland, through the Faroe Islands and Iceland- nowhere over more than 300 mi. of water. That is why a party of scientists and airmen (of only 23 years average age) sailed last week from England for the Faroe Islands in Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic ship Quest. As the British arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring...