Word: glider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great, grotesque airplane last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...
...Roosevelt Field, N. Y. is a hangar which for two years was always locked, its windows frosted white to guard against peepers. Within strange craft were being built: a great twin-motored plane with two adjustable wings in tandem, with no ailerons and no tail assembly; and a motorless glider of similar design. The wings were designed something like a bird's, with the trailing edge of the front wing fluted, or "feathered." Scarcely less mysterious to the inhabitants of the field was the ship's inventor, Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inkstands and inks from which...
Early one morning last week Inventor Davis and his mechanic, one Carl Nelson, wheeled his glider out to the field, hitched it behind an automobile for towing. Both men boarded the craft, with Mr. Davis at the controls. They intended only a ground test, but as the automobile gained momentum the glider suddenly attained flying speed, rose abruptly, broke loose from its towing cable and executed a half loop. Inventor Davis fell out; his glider fell on top of him, killed him. Mechanic Nelson clung to the machine, escaped serious injury...
...licensed pilots-an increase of 33% from 10,215 to 15,280. Of these, 385 are women of whom 35 have transport licenses. As it did last year California leads the pilot list with 2,852; New York is second, 1,641; Nevada last, 13. Of 1,088 gliders and 178 glider pilots, California had most-235 craft, 80 pilots. New York passed California with total aircraft of 1,193 to California's 1,175. Nevada was last with eleven; but has 25 airports. The total number of airports and landing fields in the U. S. was increased...
Cloud-rider. At Mt. Wasserkupper in the Rhon Mountains, where international glider contests were in progress last week, an approaching thunderstorm sent pilots and spectators scurrying for cover. One pilot, however, Robert Kronfeld of Austria, deliberately took off with his new glider Wien, largest ever built. He knew that the heavy clouds indicated strong upcurrents. He "hooked on" beneath a cloud, soared ahead of the storm's center, landed at Hof, 94 mi. distant, bettering his old world's record by two miles...