Word: planing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George William Lewis, Director of Aeronautical Research for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, who foretold development within four or five years of a 400-m.p.h. military plane capable of flying from Washington to New York in half an hour...
...flying west over Solano County, Calif., at 7,000 ft. Co-pilot Archie Anderson had the wheel; the pilot was in the passengers' cabin. Suddenly Anderson saw a great dazzling ball in his path which he afterward said was as "big as a house." Instinctively he whipped his plane into a bank. The passengers snapped awake and the pilot rushed forward in time to see the meteor shatter like a mammoth bomb. Glowing fragments streamed past, plunged earthward. The plane was unharmed. But on the ground a truck driver who saw the meteor telephoned police that a burning airplane...
...meteor had wrecked the plane and killed the occupants, it would have been the first incontrovertible instance of such hail from outer space causing loss of human life. No one knows whether the mountainous mass that shook North Central Siberia in 1908, or the prehistoric fall that dug Meteor Crater 4,000 ft. wide in Arizona, killed anyone or not. But several close shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites...
Ever since its organization, it has been the policy of the club to purchase an airplane each fall which is available to club members throughout the year. On this plane, members can fly at cost price per hour, a rate which is anywhere from one-half to one-third the price per hour on commercially owned ships. This plane is used only by members of the club, and is available to experienced pilots in the club for cross country flights and weekend trips. Last year, the club purchased in October a 90-horse-power Fairchild two place monoplane. This ship...
Every effort is used to make flying with the Club as safe as it can possibly be. The Club ship is at all times in the hands of expert licensed mechanics who constantly check the condition of the plane, and attend to any needed repairs and engine overhauls. All club flying is supervised by a licensed Transport Pilot who gives instruction to beginners, and checks out all members for cross-country flying...