Word: radioman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Communication between plane and ground is a task which has been absorbing the best efforts of government and commercial aeronautics men, their main problem having been to build durable transmitters light enough.' Success was brilliantly demonstrated to laymen last week when Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Radioman Zeh Bouck communicated for an hour by their airplane radio in Buenos Aires, with the New York Times office 5,838 mi. away...
Although he enjoys flying and his work requires much of it, Engineer Hoover Jr. is essentially a radioman. Not all his flights have ended happily. Once a trailing antenna fouled a telegraph wire, spilled his plane on its nose...
...intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant to a star. Now their latest radio bearing showed them 175 miles east of the Cape, when they had thought it only 75 miles...
Last week the good Stinson monoplane Pilot, the good Pilot William H. Alexander, and Radioman Zeh Bouck, were all ready. Capt. Yancey had much more than 48 hours notice. He got into the plane with them and off they flew. Night found them 60 mi. short of Bermuda over a glassy sea. They descended, floated the swells until dawn, got up again, reached Hamilton Harbor. Their prizes: $1,000 each; publicity for Richfield Oil Co. A sprained pontoon strut prevented their flying home. The significance: when an Armstrong Seadrome (TIME, Oct. 28) is anchored midway, and terminal facilities are improved...
Edsel Ford, Board Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night...