Word: icarus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilot named Dünnbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, flown 700 yd. by pumping furiously on a treadle. This flight, authenticated by the German Air Sport League, was still a compromise of human and mechanical power. Last week, however, the feat which Icarus and Leonardo da Vinci made famous by failure was finally achieved. In Milan, where Leonardo experimented with flapping wings 400 years ago, Pilot Vittorio Bonomi took off, flew five-eighths of a mile in a bicycle plane worked only by his own strength...
...successful bike plane is a light glider with a pair of pedals geared to two propellers. It takes a very powerful man to get it off the ground. Six-ft. 185-lb. Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...
Till now, like Icarus mid-ocean-drowned...
...grandstand big-framed Roscoe Turner, a clashing figure despite his coat of grime, received from Mary Pickford the Thompson Trophy-a gold plaque of Icarus, Greek myth boy, stretching winged arms aloft toward a modern racing plane. Also he mentally counted a third fat purse -$3,375. Admirers back-thumped him as the first man ever to clean up the three main events of the meet...
...Icarus, according to Greek myth, flew with a pair of wax-affixed wings made by his father, Daedalus. He ignored his father's warning to stay clear of the sun, crashed when the heat melted his wing...