Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...express trains. Now and again Venus gets directly between the sun and the earth. The sun's rays skim the surface of the planet, picking up any adventurous thermophilic bacteria that are in the way and shooting them to earth. The trip takes only two days and the speed is so great that many would survive the cold interstellar spaces they whiz through on the journey...
Statistics: wing span, 46 feet; overall length, 27 feet 9 inches; weight empty, 1,870 pounds; wing area, including ailerons, 319 sq. feet; maximum speed, 126 miles per hour; landing speed, 49 miles per hour; overall height, 9 feet 10 inches; useful load, 1,550 pounds; pay load, four passengers or baggage, 800 pounds; climb with full load from sea level, 900 to 1,200 feet per minute...
Before the final dash back to the boathouse, the four crews lined up at the first bend of the river with Crew A, composed largely of Sophomores, having a length start. The distance to be covered being less than a half mile, the strokes raised the beat to sprinting speed and kept it there all the way to the boat...
Dark, not unattractive, graceful, habitually well-gowned and bejeweled, Miss Mackay was the envy of most women. Her silver Rolls-Royce flashed by at breakneck speed. Her horses invariably galloped. She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt. E. C. D. Herne as her pilot. (Her safety-strap broke during the loop, but she clung with amazing wit and courage to bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs...
...phenomenal is the boom that Aviation, pioneer among the dozen airplane magazines now crowding the newsstands, solemnly issues a warning to the industry. Good things do not last forever, says Aviation editorially, and if flying is to be maintained at its present speed, the manufacturers and commercial airlines must undertake advertising and publicity campaigns to supplement the more spectacular aerial achievements...