Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coast-to-coast line (TIME, Nov. 3), announced passenger service to begin Dec. 1 over its radio-marked mail route from New York via Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago. In trimotored Fords, streamlined and otherwise "cleaned-up" to cruise at 125 m.p.h., passengers and mail will make the westward flight in eight hours. Boosted along by prevailing winds, the eastbound planes should take only 6½hr. Fare...
Founder of the American Meteor Society, Dr. Charles Pollard Olivier of the Flower Observatory, University of Pennsylvania, has encouraged laymen for the past few years to help astronomers observe meteor phenomena. Last week he asked them to time the flight of each shooting light, watch carefully to see where the meteors originated. Since some of Dr. Olivier's amateur helpers have reported a shower this year, astronomers know that the meteorites have not been pulled out of their usual path by another planet as they were in 1899. In this case, the next two years should have brilliant display...
...only trial flight before the India take-off was in mild weather, was cut from 24 hr. to 16 hr. without Lord Thomson's knowledge?and resulted in a dead engine...
...There probably is no doubt that Lord Thomson thought it would be a striking, dramatic feat to accomplish a flight to India [where he was to succeed Lord Irwin as viceroy] and come home in safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...
Supporting Inspector McWade's story was a memorandum by the late Lt.-Col. V. C. Richmond, who was killed in the crash, filed last July after an unimpressive test flight of the R-IOI. Lt.-Col. Richmond found the hydrogen bags fouled against nuts and bolts at hundreds of points; that padding was ineffective; that the loss of lifting power was about one ton per square inch of hole in twelve hours?"an alarming condition. . . . Until this matter is taken in hand, we cannot recommend any extension of the flying permit...