Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart Army doctor who last year made news by describing the symptoms he experienced while parachuting from a plane (TIME, Oct. 21) last week flooded the Journal of the American Medical Association with an eight-page report on a new disease peculiar to aviators. Doctors dealing with it variously call the condition "staleness, flying sickness, flying stress, aviator's stomach, aviator's neurasthenia, or aeroneurosis." The U. S. Army's Dr. Harry George Armstrong, 37, of Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, who prepared last week's report prefers aeroneurosis...
...Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents in more than two decades of flying...
...East Hartford, Conn, last week a two-year-old Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another...
...EARLIEST DREAMS-Nancy Hale- Scribner ($2.50). Fifteen short stories in minor key by a writer especially adept in dealing with feminine emotions. Author Hale writes with keen perception; at times, as in the title story, reaches a high poetic plane...
Just before dawn broke over the Caribbean, Captain Wallace Culbertson gunned his four motors for the takeoff. Skimming along at 50 m. p. h. he spied a small launch directly in his path. Although he swerved, a wing pontoon grazed the launch and the big plane skidded in a wild half-circle. The fragile hull split open and water poured in. Twenty-two desperate men & women scrambled to escape by hatchways and portholes. When the Clipper sank up to the overhead wing, two passengers and a steward were trapped, drowned...