Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Please refer to p. 52 of your July 15 issue under Transport-299. We quote: The ''first Army or Navy craft to have more than three motors." Your memory apparently does not extend back to 1919 when the NC4 crossed the Atlantic. This Navy plane and its sister ships had four motors. M. O. ADAMS...
Thus last week did disaster overtake Royal Dutch Air Lines (KLM) for the fifth time in seven months, the third time in one week. Among the dead passengers on the Milan-Amsterdam plane were Louis Mariano Nesbitt, British mining engineer and author of Hell-Hole of Creation (i. e. Ethiopia), and Arthur George Watts, British artist and cartoonist...
...posers because platform, seesaw and springboard were all made of glass. This flexible, resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., is about five times stronger than plate glass, can be bent or twisted 20° out of its plane, is unharmed by sudden temperature shifts, and when finally shattered by a severe impact does not fly into jagged slivers but crumbles harmlessly into small bits...
...said what he was going to say. This was nothing less than a verbal declaration of war on Ethiopia, delivered from the top of a cannon at Salerno to troops as they were about to embark. On the way to Salerno the flying Dictator who piloted his own plane passed through an electric storm. Lightning charges collected on the wireless antennae, shocked the radio operator into a faint, but the big trimotored ship roared safely on. Amateur correspondents reported that Benito Mussolini said...
...problem which agreed with no one else's. When his answer proved right he rose rapidly to assistant chief engineer, chief engineer, secretary, vice president and general manager. Year ago he succeeded Founder William Edward Boeing as president. Married, he has no children, flies his own plane to hideaway lakes for fishing...