Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandonment of plans for a polar flight by the Shenandoah has considerably dampened immediate popular interest in aviation. On the other hand the significance of the whole problem of aircraft development becomes increasingly important in view of the threatened competition in air armaments between France and Great Britain. With the future progress of aircraft, it seems, will be linked the most significant of military and commercial relations. Certainly no man in the United States is better fitted to judge of the nature of that development than Major-General Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service, who lectures at the Union...
...evening at 8 o'clock at M. I. T. of the Aeronautical Engineering Society. The design, construction, and operation of the "Shenandoah" will be described by Mr. C. P. Burgess, who was associated with its design and was aboard the huge "lighter-than-air" craft during its recent runaway flight...
...fairly certain conditions have become apparent. The flight of capital from abroad is stopping, as the slump in our security market shows. Moreover, the European situation is slowly turning brighter. Germany is acting more anxious to pay at least some reparations. France is less threatening and more conciliatory. England is becoming used to her new "Labour" government. Trade with Russia is in prospect...
...Monge Aircraft Co. (Paris) is building a new type of airplane for a flight next Spring direct to New York-mainly to advertise the progress of French aviation. Technical reports speak of a number of interesting features. The wing tapers from root to tip and has no external bracing. At its center it is seven feet deep, and contains within its cantilever structure the engines, the fuel tanks and the pilot's cockpit. Once the machine has left the ground, the landing gear itself disappears within the wing. In flight nothing will be seen but a vast wing...
...instruction which the Navy is offering to New England college graduates and undergraduates. Lieutenant George R. Poud, commanding officer of the station at Squantum, stated yesterday that work in the Ground School will begin on the evening of Tuesday. February 12, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Actual instruction in flight, however, will not be given until spring or summer...