Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show." Jones. In Atlanta Robert Tyre Jones Jr. made his first public appearance since his retirement from amateur golf. It was a charity exhibition-match on his home course; Jones was playing with burly John Golden against Gene Sarazen and Horton Smith. He seemed to loaf, was tail-ender of the foursome, which ended in a tie. Still to be determined is his professional-amateur status...
...Machine. An autogiro has a fuselage and tail surfaces like that of the conventional airplane; also it has the usual motor & propeller in its nose, and uncommonly wide landing gear. But in place of a wing is an abortive stub with upturned tips, affixed as on a low-wing monoplane, to provide lateral stability, to carry the ailerons and to provide a mounting for the undercarriage. The real supporting surfaces (i. e. wings) are embodied in four great rotating blades, or vanes, affixed to an upright tripod. It is this rotor that gives the ship its windmill appearance and that...
...Roosevelt Field, N. Y. is a hangar which for two years was always locked, its windows frosted white to guard against peepers. Within strange craft were being built: a great twin-motored plane with two adjustable wings in tandem, with no ailerons and no tail assembly; and a motorless glider of similar design. The wings were designed something like a bird's, with the trailing edge of the front wing fluted, or "feathered." Scarcely less mysterious to the inhabitants of the field was the ship's inventor, Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inkstands and inks from which...
...Curtiss Airport, N. Y. last week a great crowd of aeronautical men watched what appeared to be a conventional Waco biplane as it came in for a landing. It did not slant down toward the ground and suddenly level off. It floated down slowly, steadily at the same angle, tail high in normal flying attitude. More remarkable, the pilot's white-gloved hands could be seen upraised above his head as the craft touched the ice-coated surface, bounced a few times and was brought to a stop by footbrakes. The plane had landed itself...
...centre of gravity is well aft, the plane will not nose over, according to its designers. Also, it is claimed, the plane is incapable of spinning, diving, stunting-of anything except safe, conventional flight. Only visible difference from an ordinary aircraft is the absence of horizontal stabilizers from the tail assembly, their work being done by the adjustable lower wing...