Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement of the licensing of three new pilots and plans for another cross country flight which will take place some time this week, was made last night by I. T. Williams '30, the newly elected president of the Harvard Flying Club...
...club plane has been in the air on an average of one and one-half hours a day which is a high average considering the stormy weather that has been prevalent this year. During the Spring Recess, the plane, with H. P. Moon '32 piloting, made a cross-country flight to New York and Philadelphia carrying several members of the University of Pennsylvania flying club...
...preparation for the return trip of the Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen, if and after it reaches the U. S. next week as planned, Union Carbide & Carbon Co. last week shipped several tank cars of a new fuel gas to Lakehurst. The German dirigible in its flight to the U. S. last year, used gas instead of gasoline as fuel for its engines?the reason being that when gasoline is used up, an airship becomes lighter and rises unless some of its bag gas is also set free, a costly expedient. Gaseous fuel as it is used up can be replaced...
Nome-Long Island. Parker Dresser Cramer (who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Rockford, 111., his home town, to Stockholm, Sweden, but was forced down in Greenland) last week took off from Nome, Alaska, in a light Cessna cabin monoplane with a 110 h. p. Warner-Scarab motor. In seven days, with stops along a route which led over Alaska, Canada, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, he put his ship down on Long Island, N. Y. Flying time...
...England, two new giant dirigibles are undergoing shed trials. One of these, the R-100, is expected to be ready for a flight to North America early in June ?on the heels of the Graf Zeppelin. The R-100 has one-third greater gas capacity than the German ship and a passenger capacity of 100 as compared to the other's 25. It is to have a top speed of 82 m. p. h.. is powered by six 700 h. p. Rolls-Royce Condor Motors, is built of tubular members in such a way that its framework...