Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward Anderson ("Eddie") Stinson. flyer and plane manufacturer, and Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord, motor car manufacturer, celebrated their 35th birthdays nine days apart last July. Both have achieved large business success in their fields. But last week Mr. Stinson acknowledged Mr. Cord to be the greater executive. He did that by recommending that stockholders in his Stinson Aircraft Corp. sell out to the Cord Corp., by stating explicitly: "E. L. Cord has been one of the outstanding figures in the automotive industry during the past five years. ... He now intends to enter the aviation field in his usual forceful...
...week on a rainy, soggy field. Football is their very serious occupation, for every university student pays $13.50 for the support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when the players came within sight. Wallace A. Wade, University athletic director and football coach, swore out and had served on Pilot Howe a warrant charging him with "recklessly driving...
...Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them to land willy-nilly. The Chinese insisted that they were Russian spies. Was not their plane painted the red of the Soviets? And away they took the Frenchmen 40 miles to Tsitsihar, town on the Chinese Eastern Railroad. There the captors telegraphed Chang Hsueh-liang, Governor of Manchuria, of the arrests. He, more news-wise than the people, rewired that the Frenchmen be handled politely...
Three new instruments developed† during the eleven months' work made Lieutenant Doolittle's work possible. Those instruments: 1) Visual radio direction finder consisted of two reeds vibrating in consonance with a new short range radio beacon at Mitchel Field. When the plane is directly in the path of the beacon, the reeds vibrate uniformly. When the plane is off course, one reed fibrillates faster than the other. The closer the plane is to the beacon, the more intense the vibration. 2) Artificial horizon showed instantly at what angle the plane was flying in relation to the ground...
...Consolidated biplane was equipped with these new instruments, plus of course the usual flying equipment, and put on the field. Harry Frank Guggenheim, 39, president of the Guggenheim Fund and Ambassador-nominate to Cuba was present. He and Lieutenant Doolittle had an argument. The Lieutenant wanted to fly the plane alone. Mr. Guggenheim, a flyer himself, insisted that Lieutenant Benjamin Kelsey, who had assisted in the research, occupy the front seat, to take control in case accident happened. Piqued, daring (TIME, Sept. 30) Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely over himself...