Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it would take 5,530 airplanes and 9,573,000 pounds of mustard gas to force the evacuation of the District of Columbia. General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete or obsolescent," and told how, in an attempt to find a suitable range for target practice for pursuit planes, when finally a suitable place was found for a rental of one dollar a year the War Department did not want...
Near Syracuse, along the tracks of the New York Central, a night flyer sped westward. No whistles blew. No bell sounded. Faster and faster it glided, past green lights at little stations, red lights at crossings; and the clicking of the ties became a dreamy foxtrot drumming in the ears of people who twisted on lumpy mattresses in small green coffins in its shadowy Pullman cars. A suddenly frightened fireman stared out at the flying night, then made his way forward and peered into the engine cab. At the throttle was a hand- the steady hand of Engineer William Vanbergen...
...Mitchel Field, L. I., a new anti-stalling device to prevent accidents to beginners who frequently come to a speedy end by turning the nose of their plane up so that the engine stalls and they go down in a tail spin, was demonstrated last week. A flyer took the air, put his plane at a dangerous angle, lifted his hands above his head, and let the automatic safety device restore the plane to an even keel...
...evident to the campers that the flyer had gained something to his purpose by this scrutiny; he started his engine, and the plane with a roar began to bump over the field toward the river. He opened the throttle; the plane caromed faster, tilting awkwardly up and down as if it were lamed...
Besides being thoroughly versed in the technical development of flying craft, General Patrick has the advantage of being a flyer himself. He will be welcomed, therefore, not only as an expert, but as a devotee, a practitioner, in a field peculiarly modern and almost uniquely fascinating...