Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aviation, and one of the least popular. When the Wright brothers were doing mysterious things in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, Glenn Martin, 17, was tinkering bicycles at his parents' home in Santa Ana, Calif. Four years later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became a showman, developed an aptitude for publicity which stood him in good stead years later...
...chute but made no apparent move to jump. The Professional Pilots' Association investigated, concluded that Pilot Wilson had jumped without warning, drummed him out of its ranks. Last September at the National Air Races in Cleveland. Pilot Wilson died of injuries from a collision of his oldtime Curtiss "pusher" with an Autogiro (TIME, Sept...
...empty-handed carper, Gadfly Stout last year brought out a "Sky Car," a truncated, pusher-type two-seater, fitted purposely to suggest the oldtime Model '"T" Ford (TIME, April 13, 1931). It approached in form the plane which he foresees, a plane which will "stand on the ground horizontally instead of at a slant ... be reminiscent of a motor car or bus . . . have upholstery or trim so that one repeats some previous feeling of transportation security. . . ." If it is also foolproof, U. S. wives will say to U. S. husbands : "You can fly in that and I will...
Meanwhile at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, nearest airport to Garden City, the 1911 flight was to be reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...
...rail Zeppelin" is 85 ft. long. Streamlined into its tail is a 600-h. p. in-line motor which drives a four-bladed "pusher" propeller. Testing for damage from the propeller blast, or from suction caused by the whizzing body, observers last week placed papers near the rails. As the locomotive roared by. none of the papers stirred, so effective was the streamlining...