Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revived with gasoline, the Columbia set out for Berlin where a gigantic welcome was in store. But fortune decreed an unromantic end. Off the course, lost in a fog, developing engine trouble-due perhaps to the new brand of gasoline-the Columbia smashed its propeller while making a forced landing...
The Journey. Captain Lindbergh took the shortest route to Paris- the great circle-cutting across Long Island Sound, Cape Cod, Nova Scotia, skirting the coast of Newfoundland. He later told some of his sky adventures to the aeronautically alert New York Times for syndication: "Shortly after leaving Newfoundland, I began...
Getting a plane off the ground is not dangerous except when carrying a close-to-maximum load. A light plane may need only a 100-yard runway. Planes are usually launched against the wind, at a speed between 50 and 90 miles per hour, depending on their weight. The pilot...
Carrying one cold chicken, two gallons of tea and four tons of gasoline in a 700-horsepower Hawker-Horsley biplane, Lieutenants C. A. Carr and Lem M. S. Gillman hopped last week from Cranwell, England, bound for Karachi, India, 4,000 miles away. They missed the airdrome wall at the...
In Chicago, the Council of Aldermen bumbled loudly when a bill was introduced to authorize fire-engine sirens on hearses. Undertakers had complained they were not receiving respect or public co-operation while following their profession.