Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glider is yanked into a 10 to 15 m. p. h. wind, which supplies lift. Thereafter it is the pilot's job to jockey his plane upon the air currents ascending over the rolling terrain. Air usually rises to twice the height of an obstruction. If the pilot can get above a cloud he has an easy time. Wind always rushes up over the edge of a cloud. And the up-moving air is what the glider pilot wants...
...Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...
...once Pilot Burgin, confident in the staunchness of aircraft, took out an Arrow sport plane. She would not rise properly, bucked a ground bump, flipped forward and over onto her back, with trifling damage...
...thousands and thousands had safely done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p. h., from smashing into a gondola filled with sand. All the passengers were killed. It was the worst air accident in U. S. history...
Bureaucrat Young. Clarence M. Young, Director of the Department of Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...