Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatest Flight...
Sirs: Will TIME kindly report the greatest flight- as to number in air at one time-of airplanes on record? See TIME, p. 12, issue of May 19, third column, last sentence: "Never before had so large a fleet of planes flown so far or so well together." Correct perhaps as to "so far" and "so well together" but not as to number. While stationed at Nixville, near Verdun, late in 1918 (September or October, I believe), many American and Allied soldiers including the 5th U. S. Division and others in battle around Montfaucon enjoyed the thrill that came from...
...airmen, newshawks, photographers assembled last week at Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream, L. I. for their first view of the Curtiss-Bleecker helicopter. For four years, at a cost of $250,000, it had been under secret development by Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. A little oil leak prevented a trial flight, but young Designer Maitland Barkelew Bleecker sat at the controls, grinned in happy anticipation as the four wings revolved horizontally above his head...
...Bleecker helicopter is designed to rise with wings rotating at 60 revolutions per minute. In flight, this may be speeded to 100 r. p. m. The machine is designed to move in any direction. Flight direction is controlled by a cam which changes the position of the "flippers" of each rotating wing as it passes a given point, and by changing the angle of the wings themselves...
Mystery. Fast trains travel the 350 mi. from Montreal to Manhattan in ten hours. Scheduled transport planes fly the distance in four hours. Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...