Word: runway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pilots. Martin Jensen, second prize Dole Pacific flyer, and Bartlett Stephens, acting superintendent of the San Francisco Municipal Airport, started a short hop at San Francisco. Down the runway roared their plane. She crow hopped along, got up in the air, fell off on a wing. Jensen, scared, hauled her back to level. He remarked gently on his friend's handling of the ship. Stephens, aggrieved, had been thinking the same thing. Each had thought the other was piloting...
...Langley will have an unobstructed airplane runway 1,200 ft. long by 200 ft. wide. At the mid-sides the platform will project to give room for a hotel (with restaurant and bar), hangars, storage sheds, weather bureau, offices, hospital wards, lighthouse. Platform and buildings will be 80 ft. above calm water level. Because no Atlantic waves have ever been seen more than 45 ft. high, it is improbable that the runway ever will be awash. The buoyancy columns with their stabilizing disks will reach 160 ft. below water level. That is considerably deeper than any wave action has ever...
Passage to India. Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieut. N. H. Jenkins of the British Royal Air Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared...
...London, and the Tempelhof, near Berlin, at present the best equipped fields in the world. German flyers say Croydon as it was this past year was better than Tempelhof; British flyers call Tempelhof better than Croydon. Croydon's chief merit is that planes have a 1,400-yd runway in any direction. Practically all the field is grass-covered. That permits comfortable landings and takeoffs, except in rainy weather. Then the planes tear up the sod. To remedy that fault Croydon officials are considering putting a paved strip all around the field, as at the Rotterdam field. Croydon...
Others. Graham-Paige almost doubled its first quarter 1928 output, producing more than 25,000 Graham-Paiges during first three months of 1929. Nash beat March, 1928 by 44%, Franklin by 140% (1,566 units). March saw the millionth Oakland roll down the runway. Marmon had a record-breaking March, featured by its new Roosevelt (8 cylinders, less than $1,000). President A. R. Erskine of Studebaker told stockholders of $4,500,000 earnings, in best first quarter for five years. Continental Motors Corp. (engines) showed sales increases, exclusive of sales to Ford, of 18% over first quarter...