Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning Lady Hoare stood with her husband at the Croydon Airdrome, reading a telegram...
British air liners roar up daily from Croydon, air port of London, carry passengers to Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam and Amsterdam for but little more than the price of a first class ticket by rail and water. Many a tourist, surprised at the cheapness of these fares asks: "Do the planes...
...Dispatches containing this phrase neglected to recall the crash at Croydon on Christmas Eve, 1925, when an Imperial Airways pilot and his seven passengers died instantly. *Inventor Elmer A. Sperry of the gyroscope compass and commercial gyroscope, began engineering 45 years ago as a lighting man in Chicago; has developed a searchlight for war use, of which the 1,200,000,000-candlepower beam will pick out objects 30,000 ft. high in the night heavens (TIME, March...
...after the report of the Air Mail fatality came news of a terrible accident at the Croydon airdrome in London. A De Haviland passenger airplane, carrying a pilot and seven passengers, had scarcely risen into the air on its way to Paris, when gusty weather caused trouble and a nose dive carried the plane straight into the ground from a height of two or three hundred feet. As the craft struck, the gasoline tank burst, and in a moment there was a rush of flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot...
...aircraft. Our engineers are not idle. Early in 1925 will be issued Part I of the Aeronautical Safety Code sponsored by the Bureau of Standards and Society of Automotive Engineers. If its provisions are faithfully followed, accidents and their effects will be minimized. An explosion such as that at Croydon would probably be avoided by the use of "crashproof" tanks which the code calls for, and by placing the tanks as far as possible from the engine, particularly not along the line of the motor and the longitudinal axis of the machine. The inherent stability which the code insists...