Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Navy aircraft engineer" (Holden Chester Richardson) was, in fact, a Captain in the Navy, Chief of the Material Division, Bureau of Aeronautics, U. S. Navy Department, and responsible for all Naval aircraft design: one of the designers of the NC seaplanes used in the first trans-Atlantic flight attempt, land pilot of the NC3 on that flight; largely responsible for the catapults which put aviation into the Fleet; and recognized as the foremost international authority on the design of seaplane floats and flying boat hulls. That he is not "the Chief Designer," but is employed in the capacity...
...Flight (Columbia). Daredevil marines at the airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot...
Pilots & Priests. On its delivery flight from Detroit to Lakehurst last week the metalclad dirigible ZMC-2 (TIME, Sept. 2) scared a team of horses at Kingston, N. J. The runaways threw their driver, one Calvin Petty, from his seat and dragged him. Dirigible Capt. William E. Kepner and his crew of two saw the accident, lowered their ship over St. Joseph...
...first 32-passenger sleeper plane, at Teterboro, N. J., airport. As in Pullman cars, its seats can be rearranged for berths. Distinctive are the plane's two pairs of Wasp-motors fixed tandem, and its twin rudders which are adjustable to compensate for varying engine speeds. On his trial flight Mr. Fokker set its tail on a fence. A drizzle preceded another test flight. Spectators voiced doubt that the ship would try the run under such bad conditions...
...thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days for the crossing. As the indom- itable, tired oldster (he is 61) boarded her, his grey pants wrinkled from much conference sitting, his black lisle socks drooping from the legs of his white long-drawers he sighed