Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport. As it did, the tell-tale needle swung full around, pointed backwards, spotted the truck parked behind a hangar...
Chief purpose of any direction finder in transport flying is not alone to locate ground points but to help determine the plane's position in flight. After a ground station is tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...
...Airport carrying a new type of altimeter mounted beside a regular barometric altimeter. Up the Hudson River it flew at 800 feet, both dials registering alike. But as it crossed towering George Washington Bridge, the reading on the new altimeter dropped to 500 feet. Few miles farther on the plane banked sharply, headed for the Palisades, still flying at 800 feet by the barometric altimeter. As it approached the sheer bluff the other needle quivered, then dropped to 250 feet as the ship passed over...
...Crosley sidings have remained sidings. Soon after he went on the air with WLW he went into it with biplanes which he called Moonbeams. Now he no longer makes planes but owns three airfields, always travels by private plane. He produces washing machines, ironers, ranges, bottle coolers, and a strange gadget called the Xervac, designed to stimulate hair growth by alternate vacuum and pressure. These big and little lines are all gathered under an $8,800,000 corporation, Crosley Radio Corp., which last year lost $376,915 (partly because of damage by fire and flood), but which had average...
...Cape Verde Islands were hot, dusty, windy, dirty, and the Lindberghs were worried about the heavy seas which threatened their plane. Bathurst, in Gambia, was pleasant and clean and the English were helpful, but at each attempted takeoff the plane struggled, spanked along on the top of the waves, could not get free. The Lindberghs threw out extra tools, clothing, oil, said good-by to their hosts every day and returned shamefacedly to try again. When they got off at last the motor sputtered from an insufficient fuel supply, and Mrs. Lindbergh thought they were finished...