Word: looping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine chandelier! thought Mr. Healy, and said so. A darlin' chandelier! Springing, he seized a loop of it in his hairy hand and swung himself into the air. Crystals fell in a tinkling shower. Mr. Healy roared with joy. The fixture groaned, plaster crumbled-down went Mr. Healy with the chandelier atop him. Messrs. Tiernan and Dacey rocked in woozy mirth...
...swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills me as a sensational airplane ride, with its gyrations, its quick twists and turns and glides-nose-dive, falling leaf, swallow flight, tail spin, loop-the-loop-would thrill and chill a landlubber. It impresses the reader (now the writer) as an extended straight-classical program of music-quite heavy for a mediocre audience. However, once a person is accustomed to TIME, he cannot help feel when reading other news periodicals that he is drifting...
...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...
...Outside Loop." Imagine sitting upright on top of an enormous flywheel, 2,000 feet in diameter. You are strapped to its outer rim. The wheel is in motion, whirling you forward and downward at a speed which increases from 150 miles per hour to 280 miles per hour when you are upside down, beneath it. Then you are carried upward to your original position and are safe, for this wheel will not torture you with another revolution...
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...