Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back at the top of the loop? brought death to Lieut. Walter J. Ligon, reserve officer, and Ivan L. Hall, student aviator, at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif., last week. The wings of their plane collapsed in coming out of a loop at an altitude of 2,000 feet...
...Outside Loop." Imagine sitting upright on top of an enormous flywheel, 2,000 feet in diameter. You are strapped to its outer rim. The wheel is in motion, whirling you forward and downward at a speed which increases from 150 miles per hour to 280 miles per hour when you are upside down, beneath it. Then you are carried upward to your original position and are safe, for this wheel will not torture you with another revolution...
...Jimmy ) Doolittle performed a similar revolution in his 420-horsepower Curtiss biplane last week, when he completed the first "outside loop in aviation history. Two flyers had attempted this stunt in 1912 and were killed. Lieutenant Doolittle began his loop above Dayton, Ohio, at an altitude of 8,000 feet, flying at 150 miles per hour. His great dangers were the collapse of his plane or the breaking of straps which held him in the cockpit, at the bottom of the loop. Even though his plane held together Lieutenant Doolittle came out of the loop with bloodshot eyes...
...Army was ready to take the air. But one of its anchors stuck, causing a cable to rip a hole in the gas bag. Unbalanced, the dirigible floundered stupidly, smashed its gondola (cabin) against the ground, ripped its gas bag to shreds, let loose 200,000 cubic feet of valuable helium. The crew of seven escaped unhurt. Major Harold A. Strauss, who was in command of this unfortunate blimp, recalled that another blimp of his had exploded on the same spot in 1922, that still another in his command had been torn loose from its moorings and wrecked...
President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp., six feet tall, towering and blocky as a full-rigged schooner, took a gavel in his great fist last week. He thwacked the speaker's table smartly and the 14th yearly convention of the National Foreign Trade Council went into three-day convention at Detroit. Mr. Farrell organized the Council in 1914 and has always been its chairman. When he rapped for order, he got it. Nor did many of the 2,000 manufacturers, merchants, shippers, railroaders, steamship men, importers and exporters who went to Detroit last week stray across...