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...minutes and a mile farther away is the next most important landing-Floyd Bennett Field off the tip of Brooklyn. Smoother than Newark, superior in equipment and less hazardous to approach, its commercial activities are confined to a single regular passenger service-one American Airliner a day to Boston-taxi services and private flying. Third field is Port Washington, a temporary base for German and British flying boats and Bermuda Clippers. The 20-mile journey from Grand Central takes just under an hour. The great runways at Mitchell Field and the smaller ones at Miller Field, Staten Island are used...
...axis. The pilot sets a course on the directional gyro and the plane follows it. If an air current tips up one wing, the movement of the plane around the rigid gyro activates the controls to counteract the motion. The gyropilot is so expert that it gives passengers a smoother ride than can the pilot himself...
...film industry, when the camera was held in one position, and the characters moved back and forth in front of it, never approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could be watched. Without voice or closeups the players had to resort to violent pantomime, grimacing, brow puckering, and the frightened clutch at throat or bosom...
Christensen: Alcohol-gasoline blends distributed in the Midwest during the past three years have met with excellent consumer response. Better mileage, improved acceleration, practical elimination of gum and carbon deposition, smoother and more pleasing engine operation have been . . . commonly reported...
...antennae had torn away in the takeoff. Nonetheless, he dashed on at 225 m.p.h., taking oxygen every five minutes. After an hour, as he whizzed over the Colorado River into Arizona, thick weather shut in around him, forced him to fly blind. Climbing another 3,000 ft., he found smoother air, came out into the clear over Santa Fe as his third hour ended. Hour later, he met night rolling in over Kansas...