Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done by certain institutions and groups, educational procedure has remained substantially that of the "little red school house." Technical means are now at hand to alter this. If the Foundation can secure adequate financial support from individuals and groups interested in education it can lead this development on a plane worthy of the University. It can extend the work and influence of the University far beyond its borders, and place its standards, and the ideas for which it stands, in the forefront of a movement which holds the possibility of bringing about a complete change in the educational system...
Another cynosure of the show: a new price-list by Fokker (affiliate of General Motors), showing reductions of from $4,000 to $13,000 on every type of plane (except the 32-passenger giant) to meet similar reductions recently announced by Stinson...
...Ogre has yet another weapon. The terrific force of his ally, the wind, against a plane in flight is sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
...trans-Atlantic flight to Rome (TIME, July 22). The place Capt. Yancey stood ready to fly to was one whither no man had ever flown from the U. S.?a 20 sq. mi. pinprick n the Atlantic, 580 mi. offshore?Bermuda. One little slip in navigating and a plane from shore would shoot by Bermuda out over the boundless wastes of the Atlantic...
Last week the good Stinson monoplane Pilot, the good Pilot William H. Alexander, and Radioman Zeh Bouck, were all ready. Capt. Yancey had much more than 48 hours notice. He got into the plane with them and off they flew. Night found them 60 mi. short of Bermuda over a glassy sea. They descended, floated the swells until dawn, got up again, reached Hamilton Harbor. Their prizes: $1,000 each; publicity for Richfield Oil Co. A sprained pontoon strut prevented their flying home. The significance: when an Armstrong Seadrome (TIME, Oct. 28) is anchored midway, and terminal facilities are improved...