Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the plane began descending at 1,000 feet per minute (normal airline descent rate 300 f.p.m.), the passengers' masks were piped to a mixture of 20% oxygen, 80% helium and they experienced no ear pains. Passengers were told that ear plugging was due to failure of the ears to equalize inner and outer pressure in descent, that highly diffusible helium spreads more swiftly than air through the passages from nose to ears, keeps pressure reasonably even...
...from 1934 to 1938 there were 690 fatal accidents in U. S. private and miscellaneous flying. But diligent CAA is determined that these totals shall not be increased in proportion to the huge annual increment in amateur fliers for which it will be responsible. Last week it had small-plane manufacturers working on one of the measures it expects the flying industry to take to keep fatalities from reaching a truly appalling figure...
Outlined by CAA were the specifications for an ultrasafe plane it expects manufacturers to build for the pilots CAA will train...
...flying accidents (466 in four years) CAA's most important requirement was that the new ship must neither fall off nor spin from stalls no matter how flown. Other specifications: pilots must be able to slam on brakes at any landing speed without fear of nosing over; the plane must be manageable on the ground in winds up to 30 miles an hour; preferably it should be steered like an auto mobile, have no rudder bar. The only other thing expected of it, joked veteran fliers, was that it should mind the baby...
...does his shy, worried presence on the screen, in the midst of a cast of seasoned professionals like Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong and Cora Witherspoon, threaten to be embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that of a sincere and curiously effective...