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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With its volume of 6,500,000-cubic feet of gas, the new dirigible will be more than twice the size of the Los Angeles. At 50 knots it. will have a cruising range of 12,500 miles; it can make up to 70 knots (80 miles an hour) though at the higher speed its cruising range is, of course, shortened. Larger than any British or German dirigible now planned, it will carry a crew of 45 men. Details as to the number and size of its guns and as to how its airplane convoy can return to it after...
...said could not be successfully worked out. Seeking the Navy contract, Mr. Martin had designed a plane which, using a Pratt & Whitney Co. air-cooled motor, could carry four men, bombs or a torpedo to the weight of one ton, and yet have a ceiling* of 12,500 feet and make 120 miles an hour with a flying range of 800 miles. Naval experts refused to authorize construction of this plane, believing that no plane could be built incorporating all these features. So Mr. Martin built, at his own expense, a demonstration plane, proved it would do all he claimed...
...appear a faint haze of light-perhaps it was Paris or the beacons at Le Bourget airport. Then the fog swallowed all. "When we got above the clouds," Commander Byrd later told the New York Times, "there were at times some terrible views. We would look hundreds of feet into fog valleys-dark ominous depths. At times the cloud peaks on the horizon looked exactly like a land of mountains. At other times they took on the appearance of a beautiful lake or river...
Edward of Wales visited a coal mine in Lancashire, donned miner's garb, descended 400 feet, pecked at coal strata with a pneumatic drill, emerged dirty-faced...
They played the first set without either young woman ever coming within 20 feet of the net. Miss Wills, smashing like clockwork, won 6-2. She seemed to have regained and even surpassed the magnificent speed and rallying power which she possessed before her operation for appendicitis...