Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dusty, musty smell peculiar to large expositions was missing from Detroit's second All-American Aircraft Show last week. Several thousand sightseers and several score actual plane purchasers each day could comfortably inspect 104 plane models, exhibited by 44 oldtime and 16 freshly organized manufactories. Planes ranged from the tricky little Heath at $975, which only the best of pilots dare handle, to the $67,500 Fokker, for which, with its ornate fittings* Cadillac's President Lawrence P. Fisher just paid $75,000. In between were sturdy one and two-seater open cockpit monoplanes and biplanes. Most models...
Safety. Inherent stability is what every exhibitor claimed for his plane. Only a Department of Commerce certificate warrants confidence in such claims. Most craft at Detroit last week did have such certification. As a safety factor practically every plane carried a stabilizing apparatus which might be fixed to prevent it from suddenly going into stall, tail spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which...
...several investigations were made public. In a 70-page report Manager Richard Aldworth of Newark Airport stated (in brief): All engines (Wrights) functioned normally on previous flights and on this takeoff. One engine failed shortly after the takeoff. Another may have failed later. The pilot was convinced that his plane was overloaded, ? He was not sufficiently familiar with the area in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhood. He paid insufficient attention to the direction and velocity of the wind. From the first period after the engine failure, he probably had decided on no positive complete maneuver...
...pilot for the trip has not yet been definitely decided upon but he will probably be H. P. Moon. ocC. One member of the Club will accompany him, and stops will be made at New York and Philadelphia for change of passengers. On the return flight, the plane will probably delay at New York for several days, in order to allow short flight's around the city for those members of the Club who care to take advantage of the opportunity...
...plane is already in running condition, after a thorough overhauling, and the field staff is now in daily operation. There are about 40 candidates reporting daily from the competition which started last week. The first cut will come immediately after the vacation, during which no work will be required of competitors...