Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal authorities acted quickly to apprehend Flyer Paul Montgomery of Murphysboro, Ill., who said he had been forced by death-threats to take a bomb-dropper over Providence. Said Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics: "The dropping of explosives or anything else from a plane in flight, deliberately with intention . . . or by negligence, is a crime...
...Easter Sunday. Said he: "I am not interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load up with a lot of gas? ... I didn't really have the ship 'wide open'; but I don't think the flight can be made much faster...
...airship differ as do those of racing car and motorbus. Dirigible engines must: run thousands of hours between overhauls, have low weight and low fuel consumption, be reversible in operation (for maneuvering), cool properly while maneuvering at small air speed, be safe from fire, be capable of repair in flight. In view of the requisites, particularly those of reliability, low fuel consumption and reduced fire hazard, Lieut. Settle predicts the airship engine of the future will be similar to the Diesel (compression-ignition, heavy oil fuel). No U. S. manufacturer has tried to develop an engine for dirigibles because...
...left Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, L. I. at 6 a.m. (Eastern daylight-saving time). Grinning, he greeted his father at Los Angeles Municipal Airport at 4:50:43 p.m. (Pacific standard time), too weary for golf but with a new east-west transcontinental record. It was the first such flight ever made in full daylight. The plane was the Travel Air Mystery S, low-wing monoplane, powered with a supercharged Wright Whirlwind engine (TIME, Feb. 24). Elapsed time, including fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita, Albuquerque, and Kingman was 14 hr. 50 min. 43 sec.-faster...
Indoor Hop. When Inventor Maitland Barkelew Bleecker brought forth the helicopter on which he had been working for four years with Curtiss engineers (TIME, June 30) a fault in the lubricating system prevented flight tests. Last week changes had been completed, but conditions were not yet right for outdoor flying. Impatient, youthful Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof...