Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Golfing v. Flying. When the seventh plane within a month landed and tore up their golf course, members of the Old Westbury Golf Club next to Roosevelt Field, L. I., became actively vexed. They refused to let the plane take off, until they learned that it belonged to Curtiss Flying Service instead of to Roosevelt Flying Corp., the unintentional depredations of whose flyers induced the Old Westbury players to start building a 103-ft. barrier around their grounds (TIME, July...
Cigaret Butts & Forest Fires. A government plane dropped lighted cigaret and cigar butts over areas subject to forest fires to learn whether the butts can start such fires. They can, for all the cigars and most of the cigarets were still burning when searchers found them on the ground. Hence, last week, a Government warning against flipping lighted butts from planes...
...last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...
...Rivera wept when Major Ramon Franco, balked transatlantic flyer, was found (TIME, July 8). He praised the flyer on his gay return to Spain. Last week he singed his wings, dismissed him from the Spanish flying service, returned him to the infantry?because Major Franco used an Italian plane and French meteorological information for his flight...
...time recipients had their word from this "duchess of flights," she had packed eight small suitcases into her Fokker and with pilot and mechanic was on her 10,000-mile way from Folkestone, Eng., to Karachi, India. Last year she attempted the same trip in the same plane, but was forced down at Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Flying is the Duchess' avocation. Professionally she is an electro-physicist of repute, and once loved to chase eagles among mountain crags...