Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kreider who had been stunting; had just completed a lot of barrel rolls, and zoomed up - crashing into the bottom of the All American monoplane piloted by Captain Bruce. The next mistake you made was in stating that Captain Bruce's ship was an experimental plane. That is not true. The experimental plane had been flown around here for several months. The ship that Captain Bruce was in was out of regular production, fully licensed by the Department of Commerce. . . . Aviation needs all the help a publication like TIME can give it. C. T. HUTCHINS Manager, Advertising Department...
...accomplished by refueling in the air. The flight is planned to start from New York next September. Capt. Henry W. Lyon Jr. (navigator of the Southern Cross) as navigator, Reserve Lieut. Albert D. Hulse as engineer, with others as yet unnamed, are to be the crew. A plane powered with five 420-h. p. Pratt & Whitney motors, with a cruising speed of 120 m. p. h. is to be the vehicle. Twenty-two refueling stations, including ten for emergency only, are to be established. Estimated cost...
...Army's refueling champion plane, the Question Mark, flew for 150 hrs. before its engines, plain worn out, sent it down...
Giuseppe M. Bellanca has a secret. In his factory at New Castle, Del., is a big new plane about which only the following details were rumored last week: It has two Pratt & Whitney Wasp motors mounted tandem in the nose, one driving an ordinary tractor propeller, the other driving a shaft connected to a pusher propeller at the rear end. The tail of the plane is held out behind this rear propeller by two outriggers from the wings. Out of the Bellanca secrecy has issued this rumor: The plane is being built for Shirley J. Short, oldtime air mail pilot...
Well within Frederick Handley Page's arm-reach last week was a $100,000 prize put up by the Guggenheim Fund for a plane which best promised safety in the hands of even an inexpert pilot...