Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today's races will be the first entered by the Flying Club plane this spring, and the events will include an altitude flight, a speed race, and a parade. A.U. Pabst 31, will do the cross country flying to and from Hartford, and during the meet, it is expected that the Harvard pilots will be W. N. Bump '29, F. P. Sproul '29 and M. N. Fairbanks...
...true that much of the advance of aeronautics, like that of the automobile industry, has arisen from the demand for greater speed. But if the brick speedway was a risky school of improvement, the air is at least equally dangerous. The Harvard Flying Club has made its original fulfillment of its two most important by-laws richer by repetition; "purchasing an aeroplane... for the instruction of student pilots", it has "created and maintained an interest in aeronautics at Harvard". The financial side of the Club, particularly dark at the time of founding in March, 1925, has been...
...Island.* The plane is to be used by the Register and Tribune-Capital to get news and pictures, to promote aviation in Iowa. It has an enclosed cabin of six-passenger capacity, a darkroom for development of photographs, wings that can be folded, a Wright Whirlwind motor with maximum speed of 120 m.p.h. Readers of the Register and Tribune-Capital were offered $100 in prizes to suggest a name for the plane...
Last week, at Curtiss Field, Long Island, Bonney tested his finally completed Gull. It flew. For half a mile it traveled in a burst of speed. Bonney waved his arm in triumph. And then the Gull nosed down to earth and dived straight into the ground, a mass of wreckage. Bonney landed on his head 20 feet away, with only moments left to live...
...play is full of easy-going wit which requires no pregnant pauses to speed it on its way. The people are lazy and likable. All went well with Billie Burke, although perhaps she sometimes twitched too violently in her efforts to emphasize her charms. Many of the other members of the cast were with The Happy Husband when it ran long and breathlessly in London...