Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fritz von Opel, youthful and imaginative automobile maker of Frankfort, Germany, after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
Blind flying, where nothing of the ground or horizon can be seen, is the terror of aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes...
Praised by Queen-Empress Mary a. "Most comfortable and clever!" was the Gypsy Moth's upholstery of bright scarlet leather, air-inflated. Painted a vivid red and blue, the plane is lettered on each side of the fuselage H. R. H. the Prince of Wales...
Land of the Soviets, Russian plane making a leisurely west-to-east world tour, landed on U. S. territory last week, at Altu, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, 7,000 miles from Moscow whence the plane flew one month ago (TIME...
...another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill out after accidents. Last week, newspapers had fun printing Flyer Doolittle's report on his Cleveland mishap. The phrases were as short and compact as their author. His "description of method of leaving plane" was two words...