Word: gust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When an airplane is left standing at an airport, it is the practice on some airlines to tie the control wheel, lest a sudden gust flip the control surfaces about, damage them or even upset the plane. Last week the control-lashing practice was blamed for a crackup. A big biplane of Eastern Air Transport, loaded with 15 passengers, had taken off from Newark Airport, climbed some 50 ft. and flopped down again. Alleged reason: a mechanic failed to unlash the control stick before the plane took...
...House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men), new U. S. Minister to Paraguay (TIME, Aug. 28); and Dorothy Lannon, his longtime friend and literary associate; in Washington, D. C. Died. Clement E. Chase, 45, bridge engineer, partner of famed Bridgebuilder Ralph Modjeski; when, rocked by a gust of wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt...
Balloons. Seven vast balloons surged at moorings in Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds Field. Seven brace of aeronauts prepared to mount them for a tussle with the winds. A gust ripped the German entry of Fritz von Opel & Erich Deku. The other six rose fulsomely to strive for the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race trophy...
...shoes and covered over the spots he had neglected to polish. Now, as he turned down Plympton Street to the river, a hot draft of air singed his eyelashes, and as he passed the back doors of restaurants the smell of greases caught on his coat, till the next gust blew them off again, and he hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water with no one to blame him for it. Often he had sat there in the Spring and watched the sun play Lotto...
Commander Wiley then testified to a significant change of mind. The amazingly severe "gust" which had wrenched the Akron was not a gust at all, he decided, but the shock of the ship's stern striking the water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail...