Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain. S. Dak. Tears ran down his wrinkled cheeks as he opened the bottle of wine. ''After our experiences in that war . . . it seemed funny to us." he said. "But now (hat I am last I see no humor in it." He filled his glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart the sky; No tap of drums, no bugle call; My comrades, all, Goodbye! He sipped the wine, set down his glass. The Burgundy had turned sour. Mused Last Man Lockwood...
...Navy's first accidents in fiscal 1931 occurred last week at Philadelphia?a freak crackup. Three flyers took off in a Martin bomber for parachute tests, with 200-lb. dummies secured in the bomb rack beneath the fuselage. About 100 ft. aloft, the parachute of one of the dummies worked loose, streamed aloft, was jerked full open by the wind. Down snapped the nose of the plane as if an anchor had suddenly been dropped. The short dive wrecked the ship, set it afire, seriously injured Lieut. Commander Oscar W. Erickson and his two assistants...
Barnstormer. Roy ("Jack Dare") Ahearn, famed barnstormer, parachute jumper and stuntflyer, head of the Red Wing Flying Circus, took a French Albert parasol monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth...
...leeward course and then won the first race on the reaching course. Racing Enterprise next day, Weetamoe blew out the duralumin headboard of her mainsail in a 17-mi. breeze, had to withdraw. Skipper Vanderbilt of Enterprise put about likewise, refused the hollow victory. Designer W. Starling Burgess went aloft in a bo'sun's chair to make sure Enterprise's rigging was shipshape. The halyard fouled and he was stuck at the masthead, red whiskers blowing in the breeze, for more than an hour. In the last race of the week, Enterprise was the only contender to finish within...
Thus funded, Dr. Goddard will now set to building powerful rockets which will carry aloft barometers, thermometers, air sampling traps. When the rocket's fuel is exhausted a parachute will open, the rocket will fall gently to the earth without damaging the instruments...