Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They are, of course, strictly private affairs. The only top-flight underwriters with stock outstanding in public hands are First Boston Corp. and Bancamerica-Blair Corp...
...Lawrence Sperry, who drowned in the English Channel in 1923. was the youngest son of famed Inventor Elmer A. Sperry (marine gyrocompass and gyroscope). A pioneer of air instruments and of blind flying, Lawrence Sperry invented such indispensable aids to flight as the gyropilot, bank & turn indicator, early efficient parachute. His family last year endowed with $10,000 an annual award for the greatest contribution to aeronautics by men under...
Last week the first award, a certificate and a check for $250. went to 26-year-old William Curtis Rockefeller for his work in determining optimum flight paths _ for transports...
...year-old Walter Andrew Hamilton, maintenance superintendent of Transcontinental & Western Air, it gave a bronze plaque for being a leader in maintenance improvement, being first to develop a maintenance manual as efficient as the operation procedure, first to insist that aircraft makers design not only from a flight aspect but also with an eye to ease of maintenance. At Kansas City, hefty Prizeman Hamilton heads TWA's maintenance crew of 418 men. or 15 valets for each one of TWA's 27 Douglas transports. ¶ An older prize presented again last week was the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award...
...standard Northrop "Gamma," it became equally apparent that he was a top-notch pilot (TIME, Jan. 27, 1936). Last week, when he got around to combining these two superlatives, the result was precisely what might have been expected-he made the world's greatest long-distance speed flight, set a new transcontinental record of 7 hr., 28 min., 25 sec. What set secretive Flyer Hughes in motion again was a rumor that someone was about to take a crack at his transcontinental record. Hustling out to Burbank from his home in Los Angeles after midnight, he rolled...