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Word: bleecker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tilting 50 to 70 m.p.h. Dropping with motors dead, the revolving wings drag heavily; elminate landing crashes. Also eliminated are long landing fields. Mail officials were deeply interested, pointing out that the invention if practicable, could drop directly on post-office building roofs. The inventor is Maitland B. Bleecker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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