Word: hoverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed to count. That was Reel Foot. He was running what trainers call a Billy Barton race, a smothering race, pulling away in great bounds at the start with a speed clearly geared to last to the finish. At the first mile he was four lengths in front. Brose Hover, even money favorite and last year's winner, with seasoned Crawford Burton up, took a nasty fall at the second jump, but Burton had remounted and was coming on behind. Sea Soldier was running easily in second place. Well back, though still in it, were the black & white silks...
...every tinge of political conviction, agnosticism or despair. Clim's history winds through real events, from the coronation of the late Tsar through the Russo-Japanese War to the Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg?the dress-rehearsal for the 1917 Revolution. Recognizably real figures hover on the edges of the action: Lenin, Trotzky; you hear Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin's mighty bass lifted in revolutionary song in a Moscow restaurant...
Long before aviation was an accomplished fact, experimenters knew that the ideal airplane would rise vertically, hover at will, descend vertically, gently. For safety in commercial transport, for observation and bombardment by military aircraft, the value of such a ship is obvious. Millions have been spent in the U. S. and abroad, scores of models of helicopters* constructed without producing one craft which could reliably perform the essential maneuvers...
...engineers would make no predictions, pending exhaustive flight tests but they believe it possible to fly the helicopter off a hangar floor at two feet of altitude, out through the door, then upward at 1,000 ft. per min., in any direction at 70 m. p. h.; also, to hover over one spot while the fuel lasts, descend with or without power no faster than the largest type parachute...
Autogiro. Not to be confused with the helicopter is the Cierva Autogiro which, while capable of vertical descent, cannot take off without a short run and cannot hover indefinitely (TIME, Sept. 2). Officials of Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co. of America declared last week that commercial production would be begun at Willow Grove, Pa., in August or September...