Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff of six airplane pilots assigned to the Akron had begun regular duty. Commanded by Lieut. Harrigan they put in a day of "belly-bumping," making 104 take-offs and hook-ons in three hours, more than had been made in three years of experiments. Stationed aboard a lighter-than-air craft, among a lighter-than-air personnel, the "belly-bumpers" are extremely proud of their identity as a heavier-than-air detachment...
Died. Alberto Santos-Dumont, 59, one of the "fathers of aviation," Brazilian-born, credited as one of the inventors of powered lighter-than-air craft; of arteriosclerosis; in Bello Horizonte, Minas Geraes, Brazil. In 1901 he piloted one of his airships around the Eiffel Tower. He was not successful with airplanes until more than three years after the first successful flights of the Wright Brothers...
...thunder and they still argue about lightning. George Clarke Simpson's "breaking drop" theory has been most widely accepted. Experiments have shown that when falling water drops are made to break on a rising column of air, the drops take on a positive charge of electricity, the air and lighter spray a negative charge. Drops large enough to fall against a rising air current are likely to break up and take a positive charge. Reduced in size they are blown upward again, rising less rapidly than the negative air and spray. Their charge makes them coalesce again until they...
Proud as Navy lighter-than-air men are of the great new Akron, most of them have a strong affection for "the old L. A." Nearly all prefer to travel in her because, built as a peace ship, she has comfortable quarters in a gondola like the Graf Zeppelin's. Aboard the warlike Akron officers & crew (except the captain) are tucked deep in the ship's bowels. More fundamental is the Navymen's admiration for a ship which was the training school of practically all the lighter-than-air personnel; which flew some...
...Green immediately had a bull painted on sheet iron, mounted in front of his factory. The bull was heavy, clumsy, stolid and faced toward the east. After Founder Green died and Bull Durham tobacco was made by his more aggressive partner William T. Blackwell, the trade-mark bull became lighter, more graceful. A Liberty Bell was suspended from his neck by the U. S. flag and he faced west toward the land of unlimited resources. When Washington Duke began to make cigarets as well as smoking tobacco he gave as his reason: "My company is up against a stone wall...