Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lynch law of Latin American justice is the "ley de fuga" (law of flight). This is supposed to empower police to shoot fleeing prisoners, but in practice often means that a troublesome prisoner is set free, then drilled before he can scoot out of range. From León in Mexico's State of Guanajuato last week came a tale of ley de fuga perfect except in one particular...
...England in 1920 Parliament decided: "No action shall lie in respect of trespass or in respect of nuisance by reason of flight of aircraft over any property." The U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce has made transport flight illegal below 1,000 ft. above congested areas, 500 ft. elsewhere, except when landing. As yet, however, no final Federal decision has clarified the mass of contradictory lower court opinions on property rights v. air rights...
...April Fooler concocted by the editors of Germany's Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. Year later, another story blossomed in Germany-that a pilot named Dünnbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human and mechanical power. Last week, however, the feat which Icarus and Leonardo da Vinci made famous by failure was finally achieved. In Milan, where Leonardo experimented with flapping wings 400 years ago, Pilot Vittorio Bonomi took off, flew...
...named Enea Bossi, now in charge of stainless steel research at E. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. in Philadelphia. Steelman Bossi, unaware until newshawks descended on him that news of his "aerocycle" had broken in Milan, disproved any hoax by showing motion pictures of himself making the first human-power flight in history in Milan last Sept. 13. The story was kept secret because the aerocycle is shortly to compete for an Italian prize of $5,000 for human-power flight...
...successful bike plane is a light glider with a pair of pedals geared to two propellers. It takes a very powerful man to get it off the ground. Six-ft. 185-lb. Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...