Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These are stirring days. The Student Council is progressively revising the College, and the Crimson is rapidly revising the Student Council. But the former, in its headlong flight, has made, to my mind, one serious mistake which has not yet been caught up by the latter...
Shocked when New Mexico's Bronson Cutting died in an airplane crash in Missouri, the Senate two months ago made the Federal Bureau of Air Commerce squirm by conducting an investigation during which it was charged that the Bureau's aids to flight were "dangerously inadequate" (TIME. Feb. 24). Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce delivered its rebuttal, a vote of confidence from more than 1,000 U. S. transport pilots...
Last week the "Big Five" U. S. airlines finally took off on an industrial flight which they had long feared the Government might frown upon (TIME, March 16). From the Air Transport Association of America's headquarters in Chicago, American, Eastern, Pan American, United and Transcontinental & Western Airlines announced they had abandoned competition in equipment, would collaborate in creating a standardized fleet of huge transport planes. To Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., current darling of most of the world's leading airlines, went the contract to develop the new type transport...
Like a monstrous, whitish grub dragged from its great cocoon, the new German dirigible LZ-129 last week nosed out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen for its first test flight. With Dr. Hugo Eckener in charge of a skeleton crew, the silvery 812-ft. airship, nearly twice the Graf Zeppelin's size, drifted silently out over Lake Constance for three hours, behaved so perfectly that officials boasted further trials were superfluous...
Besides the obvious advantages of the trial flight in his new field of concentration, the extension of the tutorial system would make the planning of the study card in the spring a much more logical and scientific affair than it is at the present time. The hasty alterations and substitutions made by the tutors the following autumn under the existing system not only are carelessly thought out, but add to the general confusion in September of the Sophomore year. If this work were done leisurely in the spring, while the Freshman was getting his first taste of concentration, more sober...