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...Barling Bomber is being assembled by the Army Air Service at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. It has a wing spread of 120 feet, a height of 28 feet, measures 65 feet from nose to tail. Fully loaded, the bomber weighs 20 tons, is propelled by six Liberty motors with a total of 2,400 horsepower, dwarfs every airplane built up to this day. To keep the dimensions within reasonable limits, three wings are used to give the enormous carrying capacity required. The plane represents an investment of half-a-million dollars, and since the first flight of a machine...
Officers of McCook Field, Dayton, forgot their triumph in adding endurance to their list of speed, climb and altitude records, on seeing the fatal crash of a heavily loaded Martin bomber. Their guests of a few weeks, Captain W. B. Lawson and Sergeant Bidwell, of Langley Field, Va., Sergeant W. H. Rowland, of Selfridge Field, Mich., and Hugh M. Smith, of the Bureau of Standards, left McCook on a flight to Langley. In the face of a head wind, Captain Lawson-a distinguished war pilot- could not clear a bridge across the Miami at the edge of the field...
Short flights of more than 20 feet in altitude were made at McCook Field, Dayton, by the De Bothezat helicopter, an airplane that rises vertically without a running start...
...McCook Field, Dayton, Lieutenant L. J. Maitland attained 244.97 miles an hour, surpassing his own and all other speed records to date...
...know, you have produced the first successful helicopter." This is a fragment of the congratulatory message sent by Thomas A. Edison offering assistance in further experiments to Dr. Bothezaat, who broke the world's helicopter record at McCook's Field, Dayton, Ohio, by remaining in the air two minutes and 45 seconds at a height of 15 feet...