Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good fortune of Lieut. Osborne C. Wood confutes the old fatalistic song lamenting that wealth is not for the soldiers, and ending, 'You're in the army...
...epochal flight of 12 seconds. Taking the air a second time, they flew 852 feet in 59 seconds. The young inventors had braved the derision of all their neighbors, the scepticism of the world at large to create the first airplane. And the 266 miles an hour achieved by Lieut. A. J. Williams in the year 1923 (TIME, Nov. 12) is but a logical development of the work of these pioneers...
...expedition will include from four to six planes. The planes must have a gasoline capacity of 1500 miles. They are now being selected by Lieut. Erik H. Nelson, who was engineer officer on the recent Alaskan and Porto Rican flights. Two points are certain. They will be equipped with Liberty motors (still the most reliable aero engine built) and will be of American design. The joy of victory in Macready and Kelly's transcontinental flight was sadly marred by the thought that they flew in a Fokker plane...
...disaster is, in the first instance, directly attributable to bad orders, errors of judgment and faulty navigation on the part of three officers attached to and serving on the U. S. S. Delphy, viz: the squadron commander, Captain Edward H. Watson, the commanding officer, Lieut. Commander Donald T. Hunter, and the navigating officer, Lieutenant Lawrence Francis Blodgett...
...four machines finally starting, the Curtiss-Navy racer came in first, with Lieut. David Kittenhouse, U. S. N., piloting magnificently over the course of 186 miles at an average speed of 177.4 miles per hour. The winning airplane was built in 1921 as a land plane and carried off the Pulitzer cup in that year. With floats added and a more powerful motor, it brought more glory to its builders and to American aviation. The victory insures the holding of the contest next year in the U. S., with Long Island Sound as the most probable site...