Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hangar thrown open for the first time in two years to the gaze of the curious, workmen plied torch and hacksaw upon the metal framework of a great, grotesque airplane last week at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. It was the 20-passenger tandem-wing machine built, at an expense of about $500,000, by Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inks & inkwells. Eccentric Inventor Davis was killed last month when he tried to test a glider of the same design (TIME, March...
...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...
...marked contrast to its unostentatious departure from the Isle of Sylt was the flying boat's spectacular arrival (from Halifax, N. S.) at New York. In mid-afternoon the great tandem-motored Dornier-Wal flew out of the northeast and over Manhattan's crowded Battery, twice circled the Statue of Liberty. Capt. von Gronau picked out one of the escort of police planes, followed it down to a landing in the midst of harbor traffic, deftly hurdled a menacing piece of driftwood, brought up within a stone's throw of the Battery seawall. The four men, in their five-year...
...finally dug into the ice about 1,000 feet below the crest, the leaders will ready themselves. Forcing as much light nourishment as they can, they will make their dash to the treacherous top. As they climb, a few feet at a time, they will be sure that their tandem ropes are tight, that their footing is sure. They are all aware that Kanchenjunga has taken five lives, is willing to take as many more...
Only one markedly radical design was shown: George Fernics "tandem" monoplane with its three-wheel landing gear. Of low-wing sport type, the plane has a small auxiliary wing mounted in the fore of the fuselage which, by stalling earlier than the main wing, reduces the chances of complete involuntary stalling and spinning. The third wheel, mounted beneath the nose, places the ship in constant flying position, also prevents nosing over...