Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Just got through dousing Saphead Dowse [TIME, June 13], when up pops saphead John Muller (TIME, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the New York-to-Paris flight with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World...
...higher speed its cruising range is, of course, shortened. Larger than any British or German dirigible now planned, it will carry a crew of 45 men. Details as to the number and size of its guns and as to how its airplane convoy can return to it after a flight have not been revealed. It will be the largest dirigible in the world-until someone builds a bigger...
After the success of his demonstration plane, Mr. Martin said that the performance of its air-cooled motor had made the water-cooled motor "obsolete" for aircraft. Air-cooled (Wright Whirlwind) motors have been used on the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd transatlantic flights and on the flight to Honolulu...
Aroused from sleep, the villagers of Ver-sur-Mer aided in dragging the America into shallow water, bringing ashore the three Wright Whirlwind engines which had not once whimpered during the flight. Although the distance between Roosevelt Field, L. I., and Ver-sur-Mer on the coast of Normandy is 3,477 miles, yet Commander Byrd estimated that the America flew some 4,200 miles during its 42 hours' journey...
...during which he was forced to eat carrots and monkeys while quarantined in the Philippines. He entered the Navy via Annapolis. His services to aviation include the invention of the bubble sextant (giving flyers an artificial horizon), the perfection of the sun compass and the drift indicator. He was flight leader of the MacMillan expedition to Greenland in 1923. Everyone knows the story of his flawless flight from King's Bay, Spitzbergen, to the North Pole and back in 16 hours on May 9, 1926. Last week he hinted that his next exploit would be a trip...