Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best paper presented at the meeting went to Dr. Henry Eyring, 32, research associate at Princeton, for smart use of Nobel Laureate Max Planck's Quantum Mechanics to explain how the elements hold together in chemical combinations. By mathematics he has shown how to make light hydrogen atoms spin clockwise or counterclockwise at will, how to introduce bromine into organic compounds most easily. By mathematics he has proved that pure fluorine is the least active of the halogen group of elements (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine), a fact which controverts accepted chemistry...
...carrying Instructor Hugh Copeland as passenger, steered her cabin monoplane for a near view. Presently she found herself face to face with a 60-ft. striped tomcat. Yielding to impulse, Miss Gibson plowed into the bag. The punctured fabric wrapped itself about the wing, put the plane into a spin. Miss Gibson cut off the ignition, saw the rooftops of Queens gyrating toward her. Then Instructor Copeland seized her shoulder, yelled...
...Gibson climbed over the back of the pilot's seat while the instructor eased down into it. In doing so she was whirled against the cabin door, which flew open. Her foot caught in a safety strap, saved her. Pilot Copeland pulled the plane safely out of the spin about 100 ft. above the chimney tops-so low that 700 persons telephoned a crash alarm to police...
...Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height of 2,500 ft., crashed in a field; in Randolph, Mass. Died. Sidney Wilmot Winslow III, 24, Harvardman, son of the president of United Shoe Machinery Corp.; of carbon monoxide fumes in his father's garage; in Brookline, Mass. Died. Gertrude Bindernagel, 39, German opera soprano...
...instruments alone, Pilot Smith must recover from the spin. He knows from previous experience that what he must do is probably opposite to what his senses tell him. Pilots learn that they cannot "fly by the seat of their pants." On an even keel again he searches for the radio beacon, determines which of the quadrants of the beacon he is in, follows the correct one in until he encounters a small zone of silence. That tells him he is directly over the beacon near the field. That is enough. Completely blind landings are not required. Near perfection after long...