Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris to New York (3,600 mi.). Last week two other Frenchmen, Maurice Rossi & Paul Codos, set out from Paris to fly non-stop to California (6,200 mi.) and thus beat their own world's distance record set last year (New York-Syria, 5,657 mi.). Their plane, built five years ago by old Louis Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North...
...Langley Field, Va. from Newark one day last week flew Col. Lindbergh in the new Northrop Gamma transport mail plane which TWA's Vice President Jack Frye piloted from coast to coast three weeks ago in 11 hr., 31 min. (227 m.p.h.). Also to Langley Field went some 200 other leaders of U. S. aviation, including Orville Wright, for the ninth annual aircraft engineering research conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Run off with precise showmanship by affable, grey-haired Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, committee chairman and president of Johns Hopkins University, the conference developed from...
Compressibility burble is a phenomenon which appears at speeds of 500 m.p.h. or higher. Plane speeds have not reached the point where "compressibility burble" has become a practical limiting factor, but propeller tip speeds are near it. "Compressibility burble" is a sharp break away of the airflow from the upper wing surface like the bow-waves of a ship, leaving the air directly behind extremely rarefied...
Flutter of wing or tail surfaces may wrack a plane to pieces when it reaches a certain periodicity and intensity. With military planes approaching 300 m.p.h., wing flutter has become a major problem. The committee has developed a method of foreseeing and guarding against structural fatigue and failure...
Poor man's plane was called for by Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Department of Commerce Aeronautics Branch who declared: "It should be possible to buy airplanes at the cost of automobiles...