Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going "a mile a minute." The latest speed record (Lieutenant A. J. William, U. S. Navy, in a Curtiss hydroplane last fall) is 266 m. p. h., or over "four miles a minute." This speed would not have to be quite doubled to permit an 18-hour circummundane flight on the 60th parallel, which is only 8,312 miles around...
...discovered all his secrets of automotive economy; and that the possibility of flying 400 yards a second is already written in the mechanism of Cephenemyia, whose tremendous power is stored in extremely reduced bulk and weight-Dr. Townsend advanced the around-the-world-in-a-daylight-day flight not altogether facetiously...
What happened to the RS-1, largest semirigid dirigible in the world (TIME, Jan. 18), on her third trial flight...
...flight was made in January over Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.). Newspaper reporters, having attended the uneventful christening party the fortnight before, took no notice when Lieutenant O. B. Anderson piloted the ship from her hangar and pointed her nose aloft. They did not hear how, warned by radio of approaching high winds, the RS-1 interrupted a flight of four hours and made for home; how, when she settled earthward and was being dragged indoors with ropes, the northwest wind so increased that she was buffeted about like a dory in breakers, until Lieutenant Anderson ordered the engines started...
...assigned a place in the RS-1's crew of 13 as technical observer. He had also been aboard the late Shenandoah that night in 1924 when she broke loose from her mooring mast at Lakehurst, N. J. (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924), and he described the forced flight of the RS-1 as "far more violent...