Word: hawking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race around England. Most expected to see famed Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, last year's Schneider Cup winner, or Squadron Leader A. H. Orlebar, speed record holder, drop out of the sky ahead of the other 87 planes. Others hoped to salute Prince George's Hawk Moth, or the Prince of Wales's Tomtit, as winner of their father's trophy...
...Hawk & Pigeon...
...made his exit last week, having resigned in protest against sea-assignment (TIME, April 21). Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like an ever-lengthening pendulum. Ingeniously averting the dread "inverted spin" Williams landed, gave to the Navy his valuable...
...Center, Ala., M. M. Bishop, 57, a clever bird imitator, sat in some bushes with his gun, hooting like an owl to attract a hawk which had been ravaging his barnyard. Dail Cagle, 15, went out to hunt the same hawk, sat on a fence, heard the hooting, aimed where he thought the owl was, shot Bishop in the head, killed...
...need for adequate air corps in national defense. Many are virtually without modern equipment. Quick to perceive an outlet for the overproduced stock of 1929, Curtiss-Wright Exports Corp. has sent an invading team of expert flyers to demonstrate and sell to foreign armies Curtiss Falcon (observation), Curtiss Hawk (pursuit), Curtiss Fledgling (training), Curtiss Robin (cabin...