Word: plane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plane resembled a great, wide box kite with" struts supporting vertical and horizontal rudders far out in the rear. The engine was at one side of the flyer's seat, so that if the plane tumbled it would not fall on him. Two skids projected in front to prevent the plane somersaulting on landing...
...Wrights built the plane according to specifications which they developed themselves. When they had been boys at Dayton, Ohio, they had played with kites and gliders and grew expert in their flight. When they were young men and in the bicycle business they continued to study aerodynamics. They built themselves a wind tunnel and learned new aerodynamical laws. Two things, they learned, happened to a moving plane-wind" pushed it up from below and a vacuum sucked it up from above. If the plane was slightly curved and tapered from front to back the suction force was about three times...
...tepid to flying. So the Wrights went to Europe. There they won recognition and financial backing. That is why, when Orville Wright believed that the Smithsonian Institution at Washington was erroneously giving the late Samuel Pierpont Langley credit for the first man-carrying airplane, he sent his Kitty Hawk plane to the Science Museum' at South Kensington, London, for preservation...
...Plane Manufacture. Last year 2,000 planes were manufactured and sold. This year the number will be 10,000, next year 20,000. About 150 concerns are now making planes. But scarcely a score make 95% of the output. As happened with the automobile industry, some of the airplane leaders will fail, some of the others will grow big. There will be mergers. Airplane securities have an active sale. They are all speculative at present...
Advance Aircraft Co. Troy, Ohio / Waco / Small open cockpit biplanes / .*$2,035-$7,341 / War Plane...