Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest passenger plane ever built in the U. S. last week flew up & down for demonstration flights at the Bristol, Pa., airport of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., its builders. It is a high wing monoplane with three Wright Cyclone 525 h.p. motors that can carry it and a 7½ ton load at 130 m. p. h. cruising speed, at 155 m. p. h. high speed. In its cabin is one stateroom with a sleeping compartment, and seats for 20 passengers and two pilots. Keystone's President Edgar N. Gott named it the Patrician...
...National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics last week placed upon a new form of cowl for radial air-cooled motors. The cowl, shaped like a huge bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only $25 if put on the plane at the factory as standard equipment...
...consists of a platform 210 x 60 ft. which turns on a swivel base 40 ft. in diameter to keep the length parallel with the direction of the wind. This swiveling is essential because planes can properly land or take off only against the wind. The platform also tilts up or down. The departing plane can coast down it; the arriving plane must roll up, constantly losing speed until it stops. Spring cables along the platform also retard the speed of the landing plane...
...service in Iraq, the British government has been using 25-passenger transport airplanes. So successful has the experiment been that the British admit they are designing 50-passenger air transports, with central engine, capable of being repaired in midair for minor troubles. Such planes would be immense: the largest Junkers plane seats only 18 passengers...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, contributory star in the Coolidge foreign policy, arrived by plane in Mexico City to be house guest of U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, brightest star in the Coolidge foreign policy. In the Morrow home is a talented daughter, Anne, 22. Mexico City newspapers, putting two and two together, made one. They carried stories saying that Anne Morrow and Col. Lindbergh would soon be married in Mexico City. The stories were denied and cabled throughout...