Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flyers," Socialite Hugh Herndon Jr. and oldtime Barnstormer Clyde Pangborn, flyers of two oceans, seemed to sense an anticlimax when they skidded their wheelless Bellanca monoplane into the airport at Wenatchee, Wash., 41 hr. after taking off from Samishiro Beach, 280 mi. north of Tokyo. Their troubles on the flight had been less than their troubles with the Japanese authorities in Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 28, et ante). Yet their flight, 4,500 mi., was one of the greatest long distance flights accomplished. They had crossed the last of the northern oceans...
...flyers crawled out of the cockpit they were met by a representative of the Tokyo Asahi, waving the $25,000 prize check for the first Japan-U. S. flight...
...plaintiffs said they expected other suits to be filed by St. Louis investors who bought in all some $1,000,000 of the debenture and first mortgage bonds. Partners of Knight, Dysart & Gamble include Harry F. Knight and his son Harry Hall Knight, original backers of Lindbergh's flight to Paris...
...smokescreen was made, as usual, with titanium tetrachloride. It is carried in liquid form, in tanks specially installed in the airplane. When the pilot operates a valve, air is forced into the tank by the speed of the plane in flight, the pressure expelling the Ti CL 4 through a nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth...
...credited with constructing the first cantilever monoplane (a wing without external bracing). Of recent years he has engaged chiefly in rocket researches, visited the U. S. last winter to address the Interplanetary Society and to seek money for his experiments which, he hopes, will some day result in a flight to the moon (TIME...