Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Autogyro. A queer looking contrivance appeared above the Paris field Le Bourget last week, descended almost vertically, fluttered gently, birdlike, to the cement take-off before the hangars, came to a dead stop within a few yards, just as a Paris-London passenger plane thundered down a 500-yard take-off for an unpremeditated, complimentary contrast. "Bravo! bravo!" shouted the crowd, which closed in upon this curiosity. Thirty-year-old, blond, Spanish inventor Juan de la Cierva explained that though he had experimented with airplanes since he was 15, it was the first time he had ever made a long...
Said the New York Evening Post, "Take the fuselage of an ordinary airplane, stick into its sides a pair of garden spades, with the handles into the plane; put on the nose a propeller slightly smaller than the ordinary airplane propeller, and you have the autogyro, except for the pinwheel...
After giving a year of successful service to the members of the Harvard Flying Club and their guests, the Club Travel Air plane has been turned in for a new and later model equipped with a Curtiss OXX 6 motor...
...Travel Air plane was successfully flown to Cambridge from Wichita, Kansas, by W. N. Bump '29 and Frank Sproul '29, Flying Club pilots, a few weeks ago, and now is in action daily flying to and from the Boston Airport. The trip east was executed with no trouble, and without accident, the only delay being a day's stop at Schenectady caused by the wind drifts resulting from the Atlantic seacoast storm...
...Autos & Planes. Continental Motors has begun to make motors for airplanes. Ford, Packard and Auburn have long been connected with flying, General Motors not at all. Yet the du Ponts have given financial backing to Guiseppe Bellanca, plane designer. And the du Ponts are a large part of General Motors. So the industrial surmise is not so wild that General Motors will soon make airplanes and equipment...