Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane was a brand-new, 21-passenger Douglas DC-3, put into service only two months ago by United Air Lines on its busiest run-the two-hour hop between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Over this run it had flown as many as 30 ships a day for seven years without accident until last December when a Boeing bashed into a hill near Saugus, killed twelve (TIME, Jan. 11). For the last three years United has used only Boeings on this mountainous jump. When it bought Douglases last autumn, it started a series of exhaustive tests to accustom...
...lose, no race will be too hard for Harvey Love's Freshman crew. Apparently competition with the Yearlings will not suffice to test the mottle of the '40 boat. In the first year of the new coaching regime, it will untie the knets of nautical tradition to scale the plane of Varsity competition. However, graduated steps will lead up to this height: a race with Columbia and M.I.T. on May 8, and a four-cornered contest on May 15 with Cornell, M.I.T., and Syracuse...
...successful bike plane is a light glider with a pair of pedals geared to two propellers. It takes a very powerful man to get it off the ground. Six-ft. 185-lb. Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...
Round & round over New York City one noon last week wheeled some 100 private planes to draw the city's eyes to the sky, its feet to New York's first aviation show since 1930. New Yorkers, 95% male and 50% under 20, responded with a will. They trooped into Grand Central Palace, gaped at 32 planes, milled around 100 exhibition booths, badgered salesmen and demonstrators with questions they could not always answer. With 1936 sales up 85% over 1935 on a gross business of $76,805,000 in ships and parts, U. S. air-crafters beamed...
...Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...