Word: takeoffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans stenographer named Marie Louise Reynolds. Miss Reynolds, who studies journalism at night at Loyola University, was described by Col. Rickenbacker as a stowaway. His story: Stowaway Reynolds, 17, boarded the plane to interview Col. Rickenbacker for her college paper. She forgot to get off, was discovered after the takeoff. Reproached, she wept. Col. Rickenbacker succeeded in comforting...
...known as the Composite Aircraft. Simple in theory, it consists of a small, fast mail plane with high wind loading, mounted rigidly atop a huge flying boat. Unable to leave the ground by itself fully loaded, the sleek little mail plane will perch atop the "mother ship" for the takeoff. With eight engines (four apiece) wide open, the Composite Aircraft will be able to rise easily as a single unit. Securely locked together, the two planes will climb to some 5,000 ft. There, when sufficient speed is attained, they will separate. The mail plane, now able to stay aloft...
Monday evening will see the Adams House actors in a spicy after-dinner satire, written principally by G. Raymond Dennett '36 and Gladwin A. Hill '36. The play contains a takeoff on the House and tutorial plan, a student and biddy scene, and even President Conant will be impersonated on the boards...
...million miles before being purposely crashed in a Hollywood thriller. More famed was S-35, which Sikorsky built in 1926 for Capt. Rene Fonck, French Ace of Aces, who planned a non-stop flight to Paris. Loaded with nearly 14,000 Ib. of gasoline, S-35 crashed on the takeoff, incinerated two mechanics. Newshawks saw Sikorsky weep...
...months the most intensive preparations preceded the takeoff of the Explorer, second stratoflight in the U. S., seventh since Professor Auguste Piccard's in 1931.* Backed by the Army Air Corps and the National Geographic Society, the stratonauts planned not only to break the world's official altitude record (61,237 ft.) but to amass scientific data. Cost of the expedition was reported to be $1,000,000. In Moonlight Valley, a large natural amphitheatre in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Explorer's crew had waited weeks for favorable weather. To inflate the envelope with...