Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer. Col. Henry Breckinridge, onetime Assistant Secretary of War, hopped over the back fence at Newark Airport, flew away in a borrowed airplane and were reported some time later inquiring on Cuttyhunk Island. Mass, for a yacht known as the Sally or the Nellie. Next day they borrowed another plane, made a similar flight over the same area. It was 48 hours after these trips that the Treasury Department was asked to trace the ransom money...
Stocky, grinning Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks, famed publicity flyer, holder of nearly all informal city-to-city speed records in the U. S. and Europe, was not grinning one day last week when attendants at the Worcester, Mass, airport pulled him from beneath his crashed Travel Air "mystery plane" Texaco 13. Day before he had hopped from Detroit (in 3 hr. 5 min.). lectured the Worcester Boy Scouts on the necessity of developing foolproof planes, but had delayed his departure until the next morning because of a soggy field. An escort plane had nosed up when it landed just ahead...
Thus, with parables perverted, did William Bushnell Stout, designer and builder of Ford tri-motor planes, last week in Aviation magazine castigate the airplane industry for its lack of ingenuity and inventiveness. In the same tenor in the same magazine two years ago Designer Stout, long a gadfly of the industry, observed that no plane had been produced as efficient per horsepower as the original Wright kite-like biplane. Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow...
...Bronze-lacquered Ford club plane de luxe...
...compact little Curtiss fighter, "the smallest plane which could be built around a 420-hp. Whirlwind," one of five built for the Navy for installation within the airship Akron...