Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brilliant searchlights would radiate from them, and to them would swoop ocean-crossing aircraft, heavy-laden with freight and passengers. In the seadromes' vitals, which would extend so far down into the deep ocean that no wave-motion would be noticed by the most squeamish visitor, would be fuel and food supplies, machine shops and the foundations of hotels where ocean travelers could rest en route between Atlantic City, N. J., and Plymouth, England. Engineer Armstrong believes that where distance is the object of aviation, speed should be sacrificed for the sake of safety and comfort...
...which there would be cabins for the 130 passengers whom the air leviathan could whisk across the Atlantic in 36 hours. There would be six huge pontoons for landing, if necessary, on the sea, and in these a crew of 25 mechanics would be berthed. Tons of trunks and fuel for 16 hours of top-speed flying were provided with stowage and lifting power. From control cabins in the wing tips the pilots would set their course from Europe first to the Azores, thence...
...graduated. "It's no use, doctor, it's no use. I'm about through and you can't do me any good. Go help those other people-those women-help ..." were the last words of the dying man. He was vice president of the Pocahontis Fuel...
...railroads in one day. In 1901 the Great Eastern Railway of England carried 200 -000 to King Edward VII's coronation, the previous record.) The railways will place 600 special guards at crossovers. Several hundred employes of the Cook County forest preserve will watch cross-roads and dispense bedding, fuel and cooking utensils at the many camp sites provided for the touring pilgrims. Auto-repair gangs will patrol the roads. First aid stations will minister to the stricken...
...Flettner's claim for the practicability of "rotoring" was strengthened by figures he could quote from the log of the Baden-Baden's lately completed pioneer cruise with a cargo of stone from Hamburg to Manhattan via the Canary Islands. She had used but 30% of the fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told also...