Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of June 2, p. 13, under Army & Navy, "Smart & Efficient," "The Attack," I note your statement that "... one fighting plane after another shot screaming down in power dives of attack, at speeds (250 m. p. h. and more) impossible to meet with defensive gunfire...
During this time the plane did not retreat from the twister but impudently dodged about it. Trusting to powerful motors which drove them along at 127 m. p. h. the crew took photographs, copious notes...
Last week the National Geographic Society reported that its South American survey plane was cruising from Miami to Havana when: "Pilot Hawkins, to avoid an angry black cloud, veered to port. Then, to our amazement, there quickly dropped from the north end of the storm cloud a thin writhing black column of a waterspout. In a few seconds, as we watched, it grew into a black, whirling corkscrew at least 600 feet high and probably 50 feet or more in diameter. ... As it grew in size ... it took the shape and appearance of a great snake, spray and mist rising...
...plans are based chiefly upon prospective Government contracts. Although a two-place cabin commercial plane was developed and testflown last summer, it never was placed in production. Instead, all efforts were concentrated upon XFJ-1, a single-place fighter for the Navy; XP-16, two-place pursuit for the Army; XO-31, a light observation plane for the Navy. In an official test last week a few hours after the stock deal was completed, Vice President Joyce, who is one of the ablest demonstrators in the business, put the XFJ-1 into-and easily brought it out of -a spectacular...
Invaders. At Vienna's Aspern Aerodrome last week an excited crowd cheered the daredevil aerobatics of Lieut. James Harold Doolittle and his "invading" team of U. S. airmen demonstrating Curtiss fighting craft (TIME, April 21). The Austrians cheered louder when their President, Wilhelm Miklas, stepped into a plane to be flown about by Capt. F. K. Cannon. Pilot Cannon essayed no stunts; landed his passenger gently, as befits a prospective buyer.* Doolittle's Circus, having shown their wares at Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, will push on to Prague, Berlin...