Word: glider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speedway of that city between June 9 and July 4. The entry of 14 contestants is assured. Those pilots who finish first, second, third, will represent the United States in the international James Gordon Bennett trophy race at Brussels in September. At Toulouse, Georges Barbot took off in a glider, remained in the air 15 minutes, and landed-without the aid of a wind. This because the glider was equipped with a 7-horsepower auxiliary motor...
They are returning to where Leonardo started, armed with the knowledge of the atmosphere, of air currents, air pockets, waves and equilibrium which he lacked from never having gotten more than ten feet across the earth in his disappointing struggles. The principle of the glider, Leonardo's principle, has been developed to such an extent that a man is able to stay in the air for three hours at a time. To do so he has nothing to depend on except his understanding of currents and his "feel" of the air. Without the knowledge gained by machine-propelled planes...
...gliding. People on a London common saw a strange sight-an elderly gentleman playing with a toy aeroplane. He was Dr. E. H. Hankin, M. A., D. Sc., author of Animal Flight (a book dealing with the science of living flight), and he was experimenting with a model glider...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society, which was founded in 1908, is one of the oldest aviation organizations of its kind in the country. From experimenting with the old type of glider, the society has done much interesting work with motor planes, which has culminated in the recent purchase of a seaplane and in plans to train pilots for service at Framingham...