Word: airport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor John H. Trumbull, of Connecticut, required two planes to fly from his home in Plainville, Conn., to New York City. The first damaged a wing but not the occupants in landing; the second flew him safely to Mitchel Field, one of Manhattan's airport approximates...
Colonel Green plans to build a $1,500,000 airport on his estate, Round Hills, at South Dartmouth, Mass, (near New Bedford). He will have two magnificent runways, 3,800 and 2,700 feet long; a bay protected by a breakwater for the use of seaplanes; some of the finest radio equipment in the U. S.; spacious hangars, experimental buildings...
Fashionable neighbors of Colonel Green have refused to sell him adjoining land that he wanted, have attempted to thwart his airport scheme on the grounds that it will be a nuisance to their summer tranquillity. "Let them go to it." stormed Colonel Green last week...
Winging out of the edge of a storm that had buffeted and bounced them all the way from Grand Rapids, 13 commercial airplanes of 14 that had started three weeks before, snored down across the finish line of the third National Reliability Tour into Ford Airport, Detroit. First to cross the line was a Pitcairn Mailwing. Four seconds later came Pilot Eddie Stinson of Detroit, with seven passengers in a cabined monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant...
...foregone conclusion that both heroes would receive Distinguished Flying Crosses. They were to present themselves to President Coolidge in South Dakota, visit Milwaukee (Hero Maitland's home) and be told about that city's new Maitland Airport, and visit Dayton, Ohio, scene of their preparations. Later, Lieutenant Hegenberger would return to his post in the office of Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison; Lieutenant Maitland to his as instrument chief of the Army post at Dayton...