Word: glider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan news-vendors hawked profitably last week a new greeting card: a rose-garlanded glider, piloted by a fat cherub with goggles, towed by a two-seater monoplane. In the distance, flying away, was a stork. The greeting: CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAPPY LINDBERGHS. Price...
...Barograph, No Record. From the sheer cliffs bordering Point Loma, Calif, last week youthful Glider-Pilot Jack Barstow in a Bowlus sailplane was launched over the Pacific's edge. All that day and most of that night he soared over land and water, sometimes in cold wind and rain, conversing occasionally through the darkness with his friends below. When he landed, at the end of 15 hr. 13 min. he had shattered every existing endurance record for gliding* and yet, officially, had made no flight. Reason: he had taken along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock...
Another to capitalize upon advance fame was the tiny Aeronca sometimes referred to as a powered glider, which, with its 2-cylinder 30 h. p. motor, had flown from Cincinnati to New York at $9.60 fuel cost (TIME, April 21). Other comparatively new features were likewise to be found among small craft: the Sikorsky S-39 four-passenger sport amphibian; the Eastman small flying yacht; the Whittelsey flying boat; three two-place craft. Huntington Governor, the Continental Sport, and the Engineer Aircraft Corp.'s The Engineer, the latter capable of storage with wings folded in a garage...
April 25, 26-New York Glider Carnival, at Bayside...
...publicity stunts of Capt. Frank Hawks, superintendent of aviation for Texas Co. Last June he set the coast-to-coast record in two swoops of his Lockheed Air Express. Last week he set out (with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations he unhooked his "car"' from its "locomotive" and coasted to earth, demonstrating...