Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another demonstration of infra-red use occurred last week on the roof of England's Croydon Airdrome control tower. There Paul Humphrey MacNeil of Huntington, L. I. showed his infra-red sextant. Navigators locate their position at sea or in the air by determining how high the sun is above the horizon. They "shoot the sun" through the eyepiece of a sextant. If the day is cloudy, they cannot see the sun, although they may know its approximate location. The MacNeil sextant is connected with an amplifier sensitive to the sun's infra-red rays. Those rays...
...biggest land plane was Imperial Airways' proud Hannibal, the 38-passenger biplane which went into service only a month ago. With 18 passengers, including four Americans, the ship had started from Croydon for Paris in a storm. Over Kent one of the upper propellers whirled itself to pieces, the fragments fell and disabled the engine below it, somehow put a third one out of commission. Pilot F. Dinsmore skilfully brought the crippled ship down into a meadow. No one was hurt, but the handsome plane with its luxurious cabin and cocktail bar was expensively smashed...
...interviewers. Now he was in England two days ahead of the speed record set by his good friend Lieut. Charles W. A. Scott, Royal Air Force boxer (TIME, June 15) in the same type of plane. After a hurried luncheon at Pevensey, Pilot Mollison flew 45 mi. farther, to Croydon, almost mowed down a pet kangaroo brought to the airdrome by one of an admiring...
...Last week Australia's air hero Charles Kingsford-Smith flew from Port Darwin across the Timor Sea to Kupang, in his famed Southern Cross, and returned with the mail from the crippled City of Cairo. Not discouraged. Imperial Airways last week dispatched its second Australian mail plane from Croydon, England. By schedule, the flight should take ten days; surface mail takes 28 days...
...contemplate starting from Croydon on a continental tour in a private machine, advice is to go to the airdrome the day before and get the necessary paper work in order. ... In Rome, where I once landed on a Sunday afternoon on my way to Naples, I was held overnight because the customs officer did not arrive until three hours after I landed. In Brindisi . . . where we landed for gasoline, we were in a hurry to be on our way over to Greece. But we had to remove the cowling from all three engines so that the local customs authority could...