Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they could endure. The "cannon," mounted on an engine block, was Inventor Paul Heylandt's latest rocket motor propelled by burning of liquid oxygen and an alcoholic liquid. It was only two feet long, weighed 15 Ib. Installed in a hermetically sealed cabin airplane for stratospheric flight, the inventor said, it would propel the craft from Berlin to any point in Europe...
...Author. A citizen more of Europe than of France, Remain Rolland was one of the few top-flight intellectuals who not only tried to prevent the late Great War but refused to succumb to it. The result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept...
...forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James Henry ("Doc") Kimball of the New York office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who has never flown but who is largely responsible for the success of every oceanic flight starting from the Atlantic coast...
Gentle, grey-haired, looking somewhat older than his 57 years, Dr. Kimball was literally "overwhelmed," moved nearly to tears by the demonstration. He made a speech reviewing the critical stages of the flights he had helped to prepare "partly for the thrill I get out of them." Also he said: "A greatly improved weather map is sorely needed [before scheduled trans-Atlantic flight can be considered]. Inadequacy of information, not unsatisfactory weather, is often the reason for postponed flights. Unknown weather is bad weather when the only hope of success lies in full recognition of all hazards, including weather...
...from a terrace of the palace, and disappeared toward Asia Minor to kill time. On its return next morning a member of the Graf's crew dropped by parachute to Almaza Airdrome to give final instructions to the ground crew of 350 British soldiers. These were commanded by Flight Lieutenant Luck who had gone to Egypt last autumn to take charge of the mooring of the ill-fated R-101. After an hour's visit at Cairo the Graf flew on to Jerusalem, returned to Cairo, headed home to Friedrichshafen...