Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orient-"if the press was interested." The press was interested and scampered, hundred-legged, after the Lindberghs. Publicity-wise cities on the Pacific coast -San Francisco, Seattle, Ketchikan, Alaska-employed the telegraph to urge their airports upon the flyer as the "logical jumping-off point" for his flight. The known facts...
...dangerous bergs. For this year some 250 bergs had been predicted.- Where are they? For Greenland glaciers calved their bergs and Arctic ice floes cracked up as usual. Lieutenant Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year, he believes and hopes to find...
...absorb the rays of the sun in the frigid stratosphere. Result: When far aloft, the air was 75° below zero Fahrenheit outside, it was 106° above inside. Their drinking water ran out. They resorted to licking the condensed moisture from the walls of their cabin. As to their flight itself, they had ascended much faster than they desired. But "our ascent was of fairy-like beauty. . . . The rare glances from the cabin windows which our work permitted us ... belong to the most beautiful which I have seen in my life...
...supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution," Congress in 1915 created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a group of experts now numbering 15, appointed by the President to serve without pay. In theory, the committee is the semi-official laboratory of all U. S. aviation?Governmental and commercial. Since aviation's boom year of 1927, this Committee's annual appropriations have increased from $513,000 to $1,053,790. Best known products of its laboratory at Langley Field, Va. are NACA wing sections and the NACA engine cowling...
...impossible to learn either the point of departure of the destination of the super-balloon last night, since the flight was made without previous publicity. This is the first trip of the Los Angeles to these parts for some time, for it was not present during the air manouevres over Boston...