Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Intensity of light in Kansas City, Kan., dance halls must be one candle-foot (one candle's light a foot from the flame) at a plane three feet above the floor...
...impossible. . . . Over the Allegheny Mountains we got the customary storms. We would start to fly west and get a storm signal. We would then start back for New York and get storm signals. It seemed as though storm signals were all around us." At Miles City, Mont., their refueling plane passed them gas in milk cans. Over mountains forest fire smoke troubled them. In any case, 7,200 or 10.000 miles, the Sun God covered more distance non-stop than any other humans have ever done.* Chief significance: repeated refuelings in varied weather...
...race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route because her license had expired. She continued. Winner was Mrs. Thaden, with a Travel Air in 20½ hrs. flying time. Winner in the light plane division was Mrs. Omlie, with a Monocoupeaon...
...Cleveland gathering provided a great carrousel and carousal for flyers and planes. As the affair started 45 plane manufacturers, 16 enginemakers, 146 accessory firms had exhibits in Cleveland's public auditorium and annex. The municipal airport was bedecked with new buildings, grandstands and wire fences. A street parade of floats inaugurated the festivities. Army, Navy and Marine planes performed over the city. Detroit's new all-metal dirigible made a visit. Commercial planes capered in from all directions. Almost every famed U. S. flyer was there, almost every important air industrialist...
...Angeles, oldest of dirigibles (five years), made repeatedly successful tests over New Jersey and New York carrying a plane slung from a trapeze under the hull. The plane would detach itself, fly about, return to the trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for the Navy at Akron will be fitted not only to carry planes similarly but also to haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep...