Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guard were to be 50 men, three officers, a surgeon and a medical detachment. Guardsmen were to be selected by Lieut. Col. R. W. Walker and, said General Smith, "every man will be as perfect a soldier as there is in the United States Army." This will be the first Army presidential guard, Marines having previously served as presidential protectors. The guard was to camp about a half-mile from the State Lodge...
...Inside Loop." The usual stunt loop-the-loop ("inside loop")?during which the plane rises and is on its back at the top of the loop? brought death to Lieut. Walter J. Ligon, reserve officer, and Ivan L. Hall, student aviator, at Clover Field, Santa Monica, Calif., last week. The wings of their plane collapsed in coming out of a loop at an altitude of 2,000 feet...
...Lieut. James ("Lucky Jimmy ) Doolittle performed a similar revolution in his 420-horsepower Curtiss biplane last week, when he completed the first "outside loop in aviation history. Two flyers had attempted this stunt in 1912 and were killed. Lieutenant Doolittle began his loop above Dayton, Ohio, at an altitude of 8,000 feet, flying at 150 miles per hour. His great dangers were the collapse of his plane or the breaking of straps which held him in the cockpit, at the bottom of the loop. Even though his plane held together Lieutenant Doolittle came out of the loop with bloodshot...
...reception was Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd, first to fly over the North Pole, with his arm in a sling after his recent (TIME, April 25) airplane crash. Also was present Sir Charles Higham (TIME, April 18, May 2), British tea publicity man, who joined the official party as it filed out, had his picture taken with the Naval officers on the City Hall steps...
...with wingspread of 67 feet, weighing some 6,000 pounds, carrying an additional load of 11,000 pounds. Imagine that bird losing necessary flying speed a few feet above the ground, trying to land in a marsh at 70 miles per hour. In such a bird, last week, were Lieut. Commander Noel Davis and Lieut. Stanton Hall Wooster, crack flyers of the U. S. Navy. They were making their last test flight in the trimotored American Legion, preparatory to attempting a non-stop jump from the U. S. to Paris. Loaded with enough gasoline to cross the Atlantic, their plane...