Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Curtiss ship is a tiny plane, streamlined to the last degree, with an engine which weighs less than 700 pounds, yet turns up 475 horsepower. The racer represents the last word in airplane design and embodies a wonderful wing, curved on the under as well as on the upper...
Twenty-one and two-tent's horse power in a test of 25 feet on a cinder-surfaced road were developed by Cap and King, a pair of 10-year-old Percheron geldings, in unique pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon...
Fully inflated, ready in every detail, the enormous ZR-1 was slowly released from its cradle by the escape of 8 tons of water from its ballast tanks. Three hundred marines and sailors guided the immense bag across the shed at Lakehurst, N. J., and anchored it at the entrance...
Planes are the submarine's deadly enemy. Now the submarine is to be provided with a periscope several thousand feet high, flying 90 miles an hour. Tests are being carried out by the Navy at Anacostia, D. C., on a tiny machine, the XS-I, equipped with a 60...
France, Italy, England are bending every effort to win the Schneider Cup seaplane race to be held at Cowes, England, on Sept. 28. But the U. S. Navy will give them a good run. Two of four U. S. entries have made their final tests. The CR-32, tested at...