Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President received Major General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, and the aviators who will take part in the Army's around-the-world flight to start from Los Angeles on March 15. "Bring home the bacon," said Mr. Coolidge...
...broad flight of stone steps leading to a platform 20 feet high, on one corner of which stood the temple proper...
...altimeter is not an absolute instrument to show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher and into still colder air; he needed his five suits of underwear, his furlined clothing, his specially designed helmet...
...Navy is bitterly disappointed at the abandonment of the so-called Pole-flight plans (TiME, Feb. 18). Its disappointment may be still greater if the British get the chance of which the Americans were deprived. Commander F. M. Boothby, British airship expert, is trying to borrow the R36 from the Air Ministry on the plea that he can fly from England to the Pole, in 96 hours there and back, at an expenditure of only $25,000. The Labor Air Minister is cold to his plans. "Airships are for military purposes, not for stunts...
...tons of bombs as were dropped on London during the entire war. Indeed, the most extraordinary event in the twentieth century has been the evolution of the air-plane. What a difference between the days of Orville Wright, when the pilot, lying on his back for part of the flight, and steering from a small wooden seat near the propeller, reached the astonishing height of 350 feet, to the present days, when parachutists can drop safely from an altitude of 21,000 feet, and gasoline can be transferred from one plane to the other high above the earth. How could...