Word: minning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keystone Army bomber over Manhattan and a Ryan monoplane over Fort Worth, Texas, each last week received their gasoline by hose. This was the method which enabled Captain Ira Eaker and his crew of four to keep the Army Fokker Question Mark above Southern California 150 hrs., 40 min., 16 sec., last January (TIME, Jan. 14), longer than any human had ever stayed...
...yard run. Five men in each heat qualified for finals. First heat--won by Edwards (N.Y.U.); second, Hackney (Michigan); third, Garland (Princeton); fourth, Elmer (Cornell); fifth, Milstead (Georgetown). Time--1 min. 58 9-10 sec. Second heat--won by Veit (N.Y.U.); second, R. P. Porter '29; third, Offenhauser (Penn State); fourth, Chapman (Bates); fifth, Gassner (N.Y.U.). Time--1 min...
...innings; by Poole, 1 in 1 inning; by Dudack, 0 in 2-3 inning. Hits--off White, 7; off Poole, 3; off Dudack, 0. Base on balls--off Page, 6; off White, 3; off Poole, 1. Passed ball--Batchelder. Losing Pitcher--White. Time--2hrs., 15 min. Umpires--Stafford and Janvrin...
That done, they hauled tarpaulin, chain and padlocks from their cabin and securely shrouded their motor from prying eyes. They had reached Langley Field in 6 hrs. 50 min. flying time and they took precautions because, underneath the chain-wrapped tarpaulin, was the first diesel-type motor ever used successfully for airplane propulsion. The flyers were Mechanical-engineers Lionel M. Woolson and Walter Edwin Lees. Their employer, developer of something new and great in the air, was Packard Motor...
...than gasoline radials of like power. It weighs nearly 3 Ib. per h.p., against the average 2 Ib. per h. p. of gasoline types. But it travels farther and more cheaply on a gallon of its fuel. For example, last week's 7-hour (actually 6 hr., 50 min.) astonishment flight required 54 gal. of oil, costing $4.68 and weighing 365 Ib. A gasoline radial would have required for the same trip 91 gal. of gas, costing $27.30 and weighing 546 Ib. On last week's short flight the gasoline engine and its fuel would have been slightly...