Word: mccook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Motors which with its purchase (40% of Fokker outstanding stock) gained control. In part payment for the Fokker stock, General Motors turned over to Fokker the capital stock of the Dayton-Wright Co., assets of which consist mainly of Wright Field, Dayton Aviation Field adjoining the famed but abandoned McCook Field (Wartime Army aviation center) and also a large number of aviation patents.* Following so closely upon General Motors' acquisition of a 25% interest in Bendix Aviation Corp., makers of airplane accessories (TIME, April 22), the Fokker transaction emphatically located General Motors in the aviation field...
Last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh again visited Dayton, this time on the course of his U. S. tour to stir aviation interest. Early one afternoon the Spirit of St. Louis whirled, drifted, slid down out of a blue sky, landed on McCook Field. The field was almost literally deserted. So, after a brief conversation with officials, Colonel Lindbergh sailed up in the air once more, reappeared one hour later at the time scheduled for his arrival. Seven thousand citizens, shrilling and cheering, heard Colonel Lindbergh gravely remark on Dayton as an aviation centre...
Last week a steamship from South America docked in Manhattan and certain matters tof fact were learned from a prosaic, weatherbeaten man on crutches who came ashore. He was Lieut. James H. Doolittle, U.S.A., test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had taken one last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs...
...type of pursuit plane developed for use as a fighting ship flown from the plane-carriers Lexington and Saratoga (TIME, Aug. 9). The Liberty Bell Trophy race was an all-Army affair from first to last, for light bombing planes. Lieut. L. M. Wolfe of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio) dashed home first by a wide margin, 120 mi. at 123.71 m.p.h...
Smoke Photography. Aerial photographers at McCook Field, Ohio, gave full credit to the Eastman Kodak Co. for new "K-panchromatic" plates by which flying observers can photograph the earth through smoke screens and light fog. The plates are treated with a secret cyanide, "krypto-cyanide," sensitive to infra-red rays which, though invisible to the eye, penetrate smoke and water vapor to record an image in the camera. The significance: protection for wartime mapmakers...