Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...thousands and thousands had safely done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p. h., from smashing into a gondola filled with sand. All the passengers were killed. It was the worst air accident in U. S. history...
...Pritchard (Pathe) risked death dozens of times for pictures. He was killed bya Ford while crossing Michigan Ave., Chicago...
...Ford to Work on Two Projects...
...Ford '94, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, receives grants for several projects, including the compiling of a bibliography of Spanish-American and Portuguese-American literature. He is enabled to secure photostats used in a grammar of Early French, clerical assistance in the study of Don Quixote, and aid in the publication of letters of John III of Portugal...