Word: blinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work under compressed air. Close to death, he rented a room on Brooklyn Heights and watched the construction through a telescope. His voice failed him and he wrote his instructions and specifications. By the time the Bridge was opened in 1889 Col. Washington Augustus Roebling was bedridden, blind in one eye. and a bitter, hard...
...Blind Pilots...
...last week, swallowed a group of 14 Navy planes soaring over the city. Twelve of the planes, Boeing fighters, were up from North Island Naval Air Station. Two, Vought Corsairs, were from U. S. S. Detroit. None was radio-equipped. Few of the pilots were specially trained for enforced blind flight...
Commercial transport operators puffed with pride over the San Diego incident as a graphic demonstration of advances in what they call "instrument" (rather than ''blind") flight. In addition to radio, both for beacon reception and conversation, the United Air Lines plane was equipped with rate-of-climb indicator, artificial horizon and directional gyro, helpful instruments which the Navy planes lacked...
...even keel again he searches for the radio beacon, determines which of the quadrants of the beacon he is in, follows the correct one in until he encounters a small zone of silence. That tells him he is directly over the beacon near the field. That is enough. Completely blind landings are not required. Near perfection after long experiment are a localizing runway beacon and a radio "landing beam" down which the pilot may "slide" to a safe landing. But thus far there is no thought of flying passengers into a completely blind field. (Occasionally Eastern Air mail pilots...