Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tandem-Wing Monoplane. While Giuseppe H. Bellanca, Italian, was designing a monoplane with elevators so large that they virtually formed a second rear wing, George Fernic, tousle-haired Rumanian, was building a monoplane with a second true wing set at its nose. His theory was that the auxiliary wing would prevent stalling. Last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I., Designer Fernic flew his machine successfully, although he could gain only 700 feet altitude. On a second trial he ran it into a wire fence, partially wrecked...
...Java-born Dutchman, founder of the U. S. and Holland Fokker industries, last week flew his first 32-passenger sleeper plane, at Teterboro, N. J., airport. As in Pullman cars, its seats can be rearranged for berths. Distinctive are the plane's two pairs of Wasp-motors fixed tandem, and its twin rudders which are adjustable to compensate for varying engine speeds. On his trial flight Mr. Fokker set its tail on a fence. A drizzle preceded another test flight. Spectators voiced doubt that the ship would try the run under such bad conditions...
...Whale. An early morning sun glittered on Lake Constance, Switzerland. Hundreds of people along the shore at Altenrheim eyed a fabulous structure at the water's edge-a yacht-like thing beneath a single wing 157 ft. wide. Above the wings were six turrets supporting six pairs of tandem motors. Mechanics, climbing up through the turrets, inspected the motors. Below the mono-wing on each side was a float like the half wing of a sesquiplane. The great structure was the mighty enlargement of Dr. Claude Dornier's Super-Whale, which he had been secretly building...
Football in 1888 was largely a matter of brute force. Even the flying wedge and tandem formations had yet to make their approved appearance. Without open play, the ball started from the rush-line and went forward as far as the combined strength of the beefy rushers could carry...
...quick tandem bicycle sprint from the CRIMSON Building down to Mount Auburn Street will open the afternoon. This will be followed by a four-in-hand obstacle race to the river bank and the waiting dories. Barring mishaps, the crews will unload after the regatta at Soldiers Field and will finish the quintathion there with the traditional diamond fray...