Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, in record time, their verdict was reached. It did not specifically mention "pilot error," did little to dispel the belief of many airmen that Earl Woodgerd, a notably careful pilot, believed all was well and he was safe on his course up to the moment he flew full speed into the mountainside. The verdict: "It is the opinion of the Investigating Board that the probable cause of this accident was a combination of the following three factors: 1) Static conditions encountered in the last portion of the flight which rendered the reception of radio range signals unintelligible...
Professor H. E. Edgerton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology will demonstrate "frozen motion" in ultrahigh speed photographs at an open meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society in Pierce Hall tonight at 7:30 o'clock. There will be no charge for admission...
...High speed photographs have revealed that the raindrop, contrary to the popular conception of it as the inspiration for the super-streamlined automobile, is spherical. These pictures enable biologists to study the movement of the humming bird's wings...
...arise from the driver's failure to size up situations carefully enough. There is a tremendous temptation, as everyone who has put his foot on the accelerator of a modern high-powered car is aware, to get everything possible out of one's vehicle in the way of speed, and, within limits, this does not seem to be bad. Police regulations to the contrary, the difference between fifty and sixty on the open road in daylight cannot be regarded as serious, and when students are picked up for clocking sixty under circumstances that clearly warrant a fast clip...
...tramps. It does not need superliners-("The American Merchant Marine is a service proposition"). Overseas air lines, over which the Commission asked jurisdiction, may cut sharply into the superliner traffic. "The American contribution to North Atlantic travel should be fireproof, vibrationless, attractive and economical vessels of reasonable size and speed, distinguished by the utmost in safety and comfort . . . available for National defense. . . ." For the rest, the U. S. should build fairly standardized combination freight & passenger types. However, the Commission's first proposed type-the so-called C-2 carrying 7,000 tons of freight, twelve passengers and a crew...