Word: plane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wound up in Zurich this week was a ten-day international aviation meet which offered a fine chance to the nations of Europe to show how they were getting along with human and mechanical preparations for the ''War in the Air." Military planes and pilots held the stage and Germany, at least, took full advantage of the occasion, competing in all events which she thought she could win, avoiding others. She won the meet hands down, taking first places in the speed, climbing & diving, and solo Alpine circuit races in the new Messerschmidt pursuit planes with which...
...Alpine circuit was a dangerous 352-mi. triangle crossing a 3,000-ft. range to Thun, thence over the 13,000-ft. Jungfrau to Bellinzona, the last lap over 11,000-ft. Scheerhorn Peak and back to Zurich. The German three-plane patrol made it in 58 min. 52.7 sec. of flying time and the Czechs, flying not quite up-to-date Avias were second in little over an hour. Their elapsed time, however, was less than that of the Germans. Meet crowds showed a tendency to cheer the Czechs, jeer the Germans...
...death was that of Germany's baldish, grinning Major-General Ernst Udet, Germany's No. 1 stunt flier whose stunts include flicking a handkerchief off the ground with his wingtip and who apparently bears a charmed life. After the War, in which he brought down 62 Allied planes, Udet was forced to bail out more than once, on one occasion barely managing to kick himself free of the falling wreckage of his plane in time to open his parachute. Few hours after last week's accident, which occurred while Udet was competing in the Alpine circuit...
...Philadelphia one day last week a pilot named George Townson took off from an airport in a plane that resembled an ordinary biplane. He circled the field, landed normally, few minutes later took off again. While he was in midair, watchers on the ground saw the upper wing begin to revolve like the vanes of a gyro. This time George Townson landed in the steep, space-saving drop characteristic of a gyro, came to earth gently...
...weighs 1,700 lb., has a 125-h.p. motor. Said happy Inventor Herrick after the demonstration: "For ten years we have been searching for the missing link of safety in aviation. We hope that it is the Vertaplane. By flying as an airplane and landing as a windmill plane it would seem to combine the advantages of both." A group of Government scouts, newshawks and tradepaper reporters felicitated the inventor, expressed keen interest, hoped the ship's inventor could design it for greater payload. It is now designed as a two-place plane...