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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: The Races (Cont'd) | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

Whether or not Farmer W. Parker Perry of Somerset, N. J. ever read of Icarus * is not a matter of record. But it is recorded that seven years ago Farmer Perry, then 26, fashioned himself a pair of wings of wood & cotton, climbed to the top of his barn, jumped. Not badly hurt, he tried another "flight," was not badly hurt. Picking himself up the second time, Farmer Perry announced with evident satisfaction: "I didn't hit as hard as if I hadn't had the wings." But he turned to less violent experiments. From hangar to hangar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Jersey Icarus | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Jersey Icarus | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence. Yet he succeeded in putting out the flames, in coming to earth alive, champion Champion, holder of the world's altitude record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honolulu Liners? | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Last week the identical little cream-colored biplane with a Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Honolulu Liners? | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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