Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceiling of a plane is the highest altitude it can reach-a light scouting plane, for instance, would have a much higher ceiling than a heavy bombing plane...
They left the municipal airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused...
Lieut. Maitland, 34, the pilot, is a towering, blond Milwaukee product. He learned to fly at Army training camps during the War. In 1923, he broke the existing world's record for speed by piloting a Curtiss plane at 244.97 miles per hour. He has a daughter, aged...
Smith & Carter. Two hours after the Army plane had left Oakland, two civilians-Pilot Ernest L. Smith and Navigator Charles H. Carter-set out to race it to Hawaii in a little Travelair plane. An unusual accident, the breaking of the navigator's windshield, caused the Travelair to return to Oakland in ten minute...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, hero of many hours, returned again to his rose-strewn path after a brief detour to transact private business in Washington and Manhattan. The path led him to Ottawa, Canada, at the head of a whizzing formation of twelve U. S. Army planes from Selfridge Field, near Detroit. He and the Spirit of St. Louis made a perfect landing to the huzzahs of a crowd assembled for Canada's Diamond Jubilee (TIME, July 4). One of his escort, Lieut. J. Thad Johnson, was less fortunate. Circling in a close triad formation while the plane of honor...