Word: byrds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Davison is one of a none too copious group of public officials trained to his task. He was a War flyer; continued his practical interest in aviation through other political occupations; was summoned to the pilot seat of Army flying. Commander Byrd and nearly every other famed aviator in U. S. Mr. Davison knows personally. His home sheltered Charles Augustus Lindbergh from the blizzard of publicity which beset him on arrival from Europe. He flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar...
Airplanes on skis are just completed for the Canadian air mail. The pilots will thereby be able to alight on smooth snow or ice surfaces with sacks of Christmas mail. The same equipment is to be fitted to Commander Richard Byrd's three planes which are planned to circle the South Pole...
...banquet hall in the Alcazar Hotel was transformed into a temporary airplane hangar. Five hundred guests sat down to dinner; among them Herbert C. Hoover, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, Anthony H. G. Fokker, Owen D. Young, Franklin D. Roosevelt. All talked aviation, particularly commercial aviation; all honored Van Lear Black, potent banker as well as newspaper solon, for his ten-month survey of commercial flying abroad...
...less important than the Arctic economically, thinks, Dr. Brown, but it offers what remains in the world of spectacular pioneering. Huge "missing stretches" of the supposed Antarctic continent remain to be mapped. The terrific Antarctic blizzards have yet to be explained. Without referring directly to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd's proposed Antarctic airplane survey next year, Dr. Brown deprecated exploration from the air as too swift and cursory to execute the patient observation and accurate measurements needed...
Canadians Best. In Toronto, Commander Byrd addressed the Canadian Aeronautical Association ingratiatingly: "Canadians generally make the best aviators in the world." As proof, he cited War figures...