Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estimated expense of operating a typical sport or club plane for one hour is this...
...recommended plan for a flying club is this: charter members, preferably ten and not more than 30, put up a total of $6,000. This will provide $4,600 for a typical sport or club plane approved by the Department of Commerce; $200 for operating expenses and $1,200 (approximately 25% of plane cost) for reserve. Dues for flying members should be $15 per annum, for non-flying members $25. Dues will buy memberships in the National Aeronautic Association...
...gases are so rare that they would afford no traction for an airplane's propellor, no buoyance for wings. Most scientists with lunar leanings have therefore pondered shooting themselves moonwards in rockets. Herr Oberth, bearing in mind the desirability of returning and landing on the earth, cogitated combining plane and rocket, using the latter for propulsion of the former as has been done experimentally at the Opel works in Germany. The core of his cogitations concerned the materials to be fused to attain speed in and out of Earth's atmosphere. He described two kinds of fuses...
Died. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Hambleton, 31, Lindbergh-friend, Baltimore banker and vice president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...
...Fred Warren Green (Michigan) also flies frequently. U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham (Connecticut) is the only Senator who flies frequently. None of President Hoover's Cabinet flies often. Recently Secretaries Adams (Navy), Lament (Commerce) and Davis (Labor) have gone up. Secretary Davis said that he would buy a plane, could he afford...