Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first dive of a brand-new submarine. Last week the brand-new U. S. submarine V5, one of the two largest in the world, put out from Portsmouth Navy Yard for her first official depth trials. Aboard her were 95 officers and men. While the mine sweeper Falcon stood by, down went the V-5 off Boone Island, Maine, stayed 45 min., came up perfectly. Her instruments recorded a submersion of 332 ft., breaking the U. S. Navy's record (held by the V4) by 32 ft.* World's record for submarine dives is 400 ft., held...
...Falcon Club...
...discovered" from the air, and the news came back no faster than the dogs and men who pulled the sledges. In 1909 Commander Robert Edwin Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled, though Frederick Albert Cook (TIME, March 31) claimed he had anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott's party all died of cold and exhaustion on their way back to their base. Author Cherry-Garrard, member of Scott's main expedition,* gives...
...cargo transport planes (mostly Douglas and Curtiss Falcon) valued...
...plane somewhat resembles the Vought Corsair in appearance but has the swept-back wings of the Curtiss Falcon. Since all Curtiss planes are named for birds (Robin, Condor, Thrush, etc., etc.) the new, one has been tentatively dubbed Hell Diver...