Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight before the meeting of the candidates Bump will briefly outline the history and purpose of the organization. The competitors will be expected to devote two afternoons a week to the competition, one afternoon at the air port to become familiar with the mechanics, construction and operation of the plane; the second afternoon to be devoted to clerical work in Cambridge...
...license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
...Daniels, it became known last week, uses a white-painted plane to visit his parishioners in Welcannia, New South Wales. His plane is labelled "CHURCH OF ENGLAND...
...content to finish second in the race across the Atlantic. Half in admiration, he reports Mr. Levine in love with flying. Halfway across the Atlantic Enthusiast Levine forced the Columbia into a 17,000-foot drop from which she was extracted with difficulty. Over Germany, Levine ordered the plane flown until the last drop of gas was gone, forcing an accident when a landing had to be made on rough ground. After each accident, said Mr. Levine in effect: "Wasn't that...
Inventor Bellanca holds Col. Chamberlin's unqualified admiration. He reveals that Bellanca was spurned by the War Department in 1917 and 1918 when he offered to build a bombing plane, powered with two Liberty motors, that would have a speed of 183 miles an hour fully loaded with bombs, machine guns, and crew. The Government laughed at this Sicilian dreamer, although he always lived up to his promises. Incidentally, the plans still exist today and Col. Chamberlin believes that the ship, if built, would "outperform any bombing plane now in the possession of the Army or Navy...