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Thus, with true British matter-of-fact farewells, Sir Samuel and his Air Lady entered the Hercules which vanished into the zenith five minutes later. Courageous, nonchalant, they had set out to inaugurate the 6,000-mile commercial airway from the Empire Capital via Cairo to Delhi, the Indian Capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Air Lady | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...third major Paris-to-London airway accident* in six months, but with no casualties. No cause was assigned for the motor trouble save that the ship was newly built and evidently insufficiently tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Sowing | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...have built about 1,900 miles of lighted airway, built our shops at Maywood, our hangars at all division points, paid all operating expenses and have on hand assets valued at $3,653,000 as of Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Air Policy | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...accepted the resignation as second assistant Postmaster General of Paul Henderson, son-in-law of Congressman Martin B. Madden of Illinois, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Col. Henderson is to become head of the National Airway Corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Sivampscott Week | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

Flying in the densest fog will soon have no terrors for the aviator. On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on the course hears only dashes; if his plane turns to left or right of the course and a coil in his receiving equipment is at an angle to the course, he hears a warning signal, dash and dot, or dot and dash, as the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Radio Compass | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

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