Word: amphibian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiment in aviation was made, last week, to see if it were practicable to eliminate airdrome landings at both ends of the Paris-London air line. An amphibian plane took off the Seine, landed at Lympne for customs, took off again and landed on the Thames at Fulham in three hours and a half. The experiment proved that one hour and much expense can be saved by the new route, as the air companies have to provide automobiles to take passengers from the cities to the outlying airdromes...
Amidst much making of speeches, tooting of whistles, playing of bands and waving of flags, the Bowdoin and the Peary sailed out of Wiscasset Harbor, Me., last week, taking Commander MacMillan, Lieutenant Commander Byrd, 38 others and three amphibian planes north to Etah, Greenland, whence the Polar regions are to be charted by the airmen...
...MacMillan expedition, commissioned by the National Geographic Society, is equipped, as Amundsen was not, with radio instruments. The Loening amphibian seaplanes lent by the U. S. Navy are smaller than the cumbersome Durnier-Wahls taken by Amundsen, easier to handle in difficult landing and taking-off places. Their base will be so much farther north that they will be able to reconnoitre slowly and widely before making any such dashes as Amundsen's. On every flight it takes, each machine will carry twice the quantity of gas and oil needed for the distance planned...
...animal kingdom. He begins with a single cell, which multiplies. In the fetus, he develops a cartilaginous spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet until three weeks before birth. Occasionally, a child is born with the primitive tail still external (it not having atrophied and become...
...Loening Amphibians to be used in the MacMillan expedition (TIME, Apr. 20) passed their tests last week, after a highly satisfactory flight from Mitchel Field, L.I., to the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, Washington, D.C, and were formally accepted. In acceptance trials, the OL-1, as the Amphibian is officially designated, attained a height of 14,000 ft, made a speed of 125 mi. per hour and climbed more than 5,000 ft. in ten minutes. Fully loaded, the plane weighs 5,200 lb., and carries a crew of four men. With its inverted engine giving the pilot clear vision...