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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speed turning only 1,100 revolutions per minute. (Smaller propellers must make 1,400 to 2,400 r.p.m.) Engineering skill has arranged that 50% of the Cyclops' final flying weight, 16,600 Ibs., shall be "useful load", i.e. 4,000 lbs. of bombs; 2,500 lbs. of fuel, enough for 500 mi.; 1,000 Ibs. of personnel; 500 lbs. of munitions for machine guns. Without bombs and cartridges, 5,000 Ibs. of fuel could be carried and the Cyclops flown to Europe. Five machine guns are carried: one out on each lower wing, clear of the propeller and thus...
Boston, Halifax, Cape Breton, Cape Bonavista, Cape Clear (Ireland), Cornwall, Cherbourg, LeHavre, Paris. The ship will probably be started with all three motors roaring, a special carriage being necessary to help her off the ground. (This will be dropped en route, ordinary wheels serving for the Paris landing.) As fuel is used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic...
...committee headed by Lieut. Commander Richard E. ("North Pole") Byrd will supervise the S-35's takeoff, inspect and seal her fuel tanks, bid the final Godspeed...
...probably be satisfied with the Republican règime. Mr. Bryan points to the economy when he was governor-how he reduced the taxes one-third, how he forced down the price of gasoline, how his State Coal Co. still saves Nebraska $10,000,000 a year on their fuel bills...
...majority of 129, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks' project to devote ?3,000,000 ($15,000,000) to the importation of coal. Said "Jix": "The Government's decision to purchase coal in quantities is prompted by a resolve that the poor must not be deprived of fuel. . . . The Government will not supply coal to large users who can import it on their own account...