Word: runway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce Inspector A. L. Niemeyer. Later, all the Lockheed Zephyrs were satisfactorily corrected, were actively in the air again. Last week Inspector Niemeyer himself flew into Billings along with seven other passengers in Flight Four's ten reclining seats. At 2:53 Flight Four taxied out the runway for its take-off for Chicago. As passengers sleepily groped for their safety belts the ship took off. Up it went to 100 feet, then. drunkenly, it began to topple to earth. both motors roaring behind up-to-date full-feathering propellers. Queerly it hit, tail and left wing tip scraping...
...pilots have had to duck and dodge three 800-foot radio towers, a clump of tall brick factory chimneys, a snaking Potomac lagoon, a blimp hangar, the U. S. Experimental Farm and, until a month ago, a highway that bisected the airport's 4,200-foot North-South runway. Last summer airline pilots, exasperated by years of shilly-shallying by politicos with options on or interests in most available airport property in the Washington area, threatened to boycott the unsafe Washington Airport. Next day, the District Airport Commission recommended a site, at Campsprings, Md., ten miles southeast...
...week Frank Krebs ran out onto the field, hopped up on the wing of an idling plane to have some routine papers signed. Before Pilot Lieut. Lewis J. Connors saw Krebs, he saw the "go" signal from the field's control tower and started the plane along the runway. Before Krebs realized what was happening it was too late to jump. He slid astride the fuselage as the plane took off, hung on by the edge of the rear cockpit for dear life. He thought he was in for a pickaback ride all the way to St. Louis. Fortunately...
...Palm Springs, Calif., Dr. Raymond Bridgman Cowles, student of desert snakes, got sick & tired of uninvited guests. Dr. Cowles surrounded his camp with a double line of mesh fence, in the runway between the fences let loose a number of diamondback rattlers...
Although Nils Eie of Oslo, Norway, took first in jumping with 36.76 points, Dartmouth captured team honors in that event to keep a clean slate. Because of the exceptionally fast surface on the runway, the jumpers took off from a rope stretched across the chute 50 feet below the platform, and jumps were consequently shorter than if the full length of the take-off had been utilized...