Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile 3,000 sweating coolies were finishing up the Dictator's new war base air field at Haichow, 250 miles from Shanghai. To Generalissimo Chiang's somewhat decadent henchman-in-arms "Young Marshal" Chang Huseh-liang, Boeing Airplane Co. delivered last week a superspeed, de luxe transport plane, luxuriously upholstered and bristling with chromium gadgets...
...possibility that the Harvard boxing team might fly rather than travel by train to Charlottesville, Va., to face the Cavaliers of the University of Virginia on January 12, was apparent at the offices of the H.A.A. yesterday, when coaches and athletic officials consulted time tables and rates for a plane trip to the southern town...
What he saw was all that remained of the world's most famed passenger plane, Royal Dutch Air Lines' (KLM) U. S.-built Douglas Airliner Uiver (Stork). Last October in the Mildenhall-Melbourne air race (TIME. Oct. 29). Uiver flew over...
Probably the world's most hazardous peacetime occupation is that of test pilot for a company making military aircraft. Lately when famed Builder John K. ("Jack") Northrop of Los Angeles (Lockheed Vega, Northrop Delta) wanted a pilot to test his newest attack plane he found his man in Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, barnstormer, test pilot and aviation theorist. To Pilot Breese Builder Northrop offered $8,000 for a 16,000-ft. vertical power-dive. Pilot Breese thought 50 per foot a fair price...
...terrific physical strain involved, Pilot Breese had himself taped from head to foot before going up. At 20,000 ft. he leveled off, nosed his ship straight down at full throttle. He was making 425 m.p.h. when his air-speed indicator broke. He kept on diving, pulled his plane out successfully...