Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes last week Parisians watched one of Juan de la Cierva's autogyros (TIME, Oct. 1) hang stationary in the air. The feat was possible because the autogyro can keep in horizontal flight at the remarkably low forward speed of 25 miles per hour and because it was headed, during its last week's demonstration, into a wind of just about the same speed...
Jubilantly Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who last spring flew the Arctic and is now at Deception Island to fly to the South Pole, last week sent radiograms -to the Lockheed Aircraft Co.: "Both Lockheed [Vega] [mono] planes performed splendidly on first Antarctic flight"; to the Wright Aeronautical Corp.: "Whirlwinds [motors] performing perfectly on first Antarctic flight ever made;" to the Hearst papers, his backers: "Mild weather has melted snow on landing field, so tests were made with wheels...
...might become sentimental on the possibilities of Harvard-Yale Law School rivalry in many fields. One might visualize the joy of encounter on the touch-gridiron, the squash court, the five o'clock floor, besides' the promised meeting in marble halls for contest in oratory. Such is the flight of fancy. But one can hardly expect that so great a contradiction to the present tenets of the Law School will be allowed. Indeed, if one ponders the matter, there comes a sudden dawning that the debate is hardly an outside activity; that here is merely a step in training...
...your Nov. 5 issue-under "Aeronautics"- in speaking of the new transcontinental flight of the "Yankee Doodle" you say, "By automobile it recently took 4 days, 8 hours, and 47 minutes...
...bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only $25 if put on the plane at the factory as standard equipment...