Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged a series of automobile horns around the building, blew them all periodically by pressing a button. When he pressed, the starlings took flight. When he stopped they alighted. Then he sent men with toy balloons on long strings to frighten the starlings from the ledges. The starlings cheeped derisively. In despair he wrote the Department of Agriculture.* Last week the Department suggested that the only remedy might be to use deadly hydrocyanic acid...
...roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which requires nine days by present airplane-&-steamer service. First eastward flight is slated for Feb. 7. A fortnightly schedule in each direction was planned...
...ghastly yet published in any war book. It is labeled an execution in Kazan. Backed against the rough-hewn wall of a log cabin eleven men, most in underclothes, barefoot, one half-naked, are standing in the snow. The volley (whose echo Authoress Yurlova compares to "an immensely swift flight of pigeons across the yard") has just crashed. The camera's shutter has caught the eleven bullet-riddled victims in the act of falling. One is arched up, head back, on tiptoe. One, with a long beard, has turned sideways, looks like a figure on a Greek frieze...
...vice president. The next two years were banner years for Pratt & Whiney and for Stockholder Deeds's $40 investment. Pratt & Whitney engineers developed the highest-powered air-cooled motor in existence, fitted with split crankshafts (for greater endurance), new type cylinder heads (for greater cooling). Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic fired a nation-wide interest in aviation-and aviation stocks. The public rushed into a market already on its way up to its 1929 crest. The U. S. Government bought practically every one of the 261 Pratt & Whitney engines made in 1927, about half...
Engineer Stack works in the Langley Field. Va. laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Last week his latest study of high-speed flight was published in the initial issue of Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences. Engineer Stack concluded that a properly streamlined monoplane, using an existing type of engine (e. g. a 2,300-h. p. Rolls-Royce) would fly 544 m. p. h., or 72% as fast as the speed of sound. Such a ship would have a tubular fuselage 40 in. in diameter, a single tapered wing of 29 ft. span. Its surface would be perfectly...