Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cavalry has only 9,919 men, 895 officers in 12 horsed regiments, two mechanized regiments. Its new chief is lively Major General John K. Herr, a grey horseman, onetime top-flight polo player, who hates to smell gasoline, does what he can to brake the trend toward mechanization at the cost of horsed units...
From Washington came more spectacular news of the mischievous effects of limiting emergency power. Month ago, when a Lockheed 14-H (on Northwest Airlines' Flight Four from Seattle to Chicago) fetched up against a pine tree after taking off from the Billings Municipal Airport in Montana, all sorts of wild guesses were hazarded about the cause of the accident. Investigators of the Bureau of Air Commerce went to Billings and tried the experiment of recreating the circumstances of the accident. In a similar Northwest plane with the same load they took off under similar conditions and quickly discovered...
...order to make air-minded but temporarily air-sated readers even mildly interested in the twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...
...this week's [July 25] swell TIME write-up of the Hughes flight was a discussion of the rubber life raft with bottled carbon dioxide for quick inflation. Carbon dioxide happens to be a bad actor as soon as it smells rubber. . . . Its rate of diffusion through rubber is about 15 times that of air. A rubber life raft inflated with carbon dioxide in mid-ocean might, for this reason, be a little embarrassing, perhaps even rather trying after a certain lapse of time...
...English have no notion of using piggyback planes in regular transatlantic service; last week's flight of the Mercury was a simple military experiment. Nonetheless, the Mercury will twice more shuttle across the Atlantic from Foynes to Montreal and Port Washington. More serious items on Imperial Airways' transatlantic schedule: five flights by the De Havilland four-motor Albatross, four flights by the Cabot, a seaplane of the same genus as the Caledonia and the Cambria which made ten flights...