Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homes both in New Orleans and San Antonio, Tex., occasionally takes a look at Rodessa's oil derricks from his new $60,000 Lockheed Electra plane, equipped with...
...advance of Italy's troops on Addis Ababa was United Pressman Ben Ames. Slashed by a sword in the native riots fortnight ago, he and a companion were able to slip out of town before dawn in a mud-bespattered truck. Just outside the city gates a scouting plane came rocketing down from the sky. Frantically they waved white towels and a large U. S. flag, were signaled on by a wave of the aviator's hand. Thirty miles farther on roaring motorcycles and staff cars popped out of the plains from all sides...
Flying blind is nothing new. All trans port pilots do it as a matter of course, letting a robot pilot keep the plane on the flying beam radioed from each major airport. Landing blind is another matter. First done in 1929 by Major James Harold Doolittle while a safety man watched from an open cockpit, it was not successfully executed solo until 1932 when Captain Albert F. Hegenberger managed it at Dayton. Since then, though many a method has been tried for commercial use, none has proved satisfactory enough to permit planes to take-off & land when fog shuts down...
United's system embodies no new principle, is merely a new combination of two well-known mechanisms - the robot pilot and the landing beam system designed in 1933 by the Bureau of Air Commerce. As the plane approaches the airport, it leaves the flying beam and picks up two new beams by means of a special cross-shaped antenna on the plane's nose. One of these is a vertical directional beam about five feet wide at the airport. The other is a lateral, curved landing beam which slants down onto the field from one side, almost vertical...
...solid centre of another of those swirling convulsions in French finance which off and on for years have threatened to dislodge the franc from gold. This time it looked as if the perennial prophets of the franc's doom might at last be right. By ship, plane and train gold was pouring out of France in huge daily shipments, which have depleted that country's gold stocks by $200,000,000 in the past fortnight, by about $500,000,000 in the past year. These sums did not represent withdrawals of foreign balances in French banks. That type...