Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during the entire war. Indeed, the most extraordinary event in the twentieth century has been the evolution of the air-plane. What a difference between the days of Orville Wright, when the pilot, lying on his back for part of the flight, and steering from a small wooden seat near the propeller, reached the astonishing height of 350 feet, to the present days, when parachutists can drop safely from an altitude of 21,000 feet, and gasoline can be transferred from one plane...
...legalistic conceptions Professor Murray's Attic sanity is most reassuring. The author is too enamoured of the grandiose conception and presumptive powers of a world state, not to mention the magnificently troubled legal waters that would lave its moral boundaries in which he would be so expert a pilot if not fisherman. Professor Murray points out that our feet are still on the ground and provides a sobering antidote to the effects of too literal an acceptance of Mr. Keen's personal convictions...
...advertise the progress of French aviation. Technical reports speak of a number of interesting features. The wing tapers from root to tip and has no external bracing. At its center it is seven feet deep, and contains within its cantilever structure the engines, the fuel tanks and the pilot's cockpit. Once the machine has left the ground, the landing gear itself disappears within the wing. In flight nothing will be seen but a vast wing; air resistance and fuel consumption will thus be reduced to an absolute minimum. The design may mark the culmination of many years...
...Cunarder Laconia and other large liners have recently tried out the Sperry gyro-pilot, a device which automatically steers 50% better than the human hand. The mechanism depends upon the rotation of the earth, and saves much of the wear and tear on the ship in rough weather...
Admiral Moffett's report also commented on a vast improvement in airplane engines, particularly as regards endurance. Unless a program of modernization proves practical, the good old Liberty motors, so famed in the War, will be useless for service work. Many a pilot will read of this pronouncement with sentimental regret...