Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bears his name is the Air Commerce Act of 1926 which set up U. S. control over civil aeronautics. Never radical, he did not favor, after the Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate's most airminded...
TIME also reported Seattle as the western objective of the Army's "frigid test" flight (TIME, Jan. 6). The objective was Spokane. Cause for such errors seems to be Seattle's news-vigor, reporting the Northwest more actively than other northwestern cities. Let news-vigor increase elsewhere. Meanwhile, TIME will redouble its efforts for Northwest accuracy...
...Colonial and British painter. He likes to wander amid the lonely buttes and lakes of the Northwest, hunting and sketching, when he is not doing Houdini tricks with cards or taking rabbits out of the pockets of his friends. He watched the aviators on Long Island preparing for the flight to Paris in the spring of 1927. He came to know Charles Augustus Lind bergh, and etched his portrait directly on copper plate from memory, aided by a photograph, the day Lindbergh landed in Paris. Exhibited in Manhattan while Paris was still cheering, that bit of work did much...
...Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were not in the snow-drifted plane. The motor had been flung 100 ft. by the crash. The untouched supplies suggested they had not lived to attempt to trudge to shelter. The Nanuk notified...
...stunter extraordinary (first outside looper), holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, announced last week his resignation as Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, to become director of aviation for Shell Petroleum Corp. On leave of absence from the Army, Doolittle lately completed a 7,200-mi. roundtrip flight for the city of New York, making a research tour of airports throughout the land. His entry into commercial flying is not abrupt. For ten years has Flyer Doolittle been a 1st Lieutenant, total pay-$4,800 per year. Service with Shell Petroleum will more than triple that income...