Word: testing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aircraft were the Navy's big new, Packard-motored all-steel PN-10 seaplanes, built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard especially for long-range scouting. The flight to Panama had been planned to test their efficiency and was to have been conducted under the supervision of the late Commander John Rodgers, hero of the Navy flight last year (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925), in a PN9 from California to Hawaii. After Commander Rodgers' ironic death (TIME, Sept. 6), the leadership had passed to Flight Commander Harold T. Bartlett, son of a Connecticut schoolmaster, seconded by Lieut. Byron J. Connell...
There had been 20 hours of final test-flying at Hampton Roads. Both planes had functioned perfectly when, loaded to weigh ten tons each, they set off (though No. 1, with Lieutenant Connell at the controls, had some difficulty rising). All night the flyers' radio reports told of perfect control and conditions-until dawn, when, cutting across Cuba, Commander Bartlett was obliged to report that his ample oil supply was unaccountably being exhausted. The motors were evidently "oil hogs." He descended at dawn at Nueva Gerona on the Isle of Pines, the non-stop flight half frustrated...
According to H. D. Stebbins '27 who conducted the experiment, the air in Widener is perfectly pure, having a carbon dioxide content of only .06 per cent from one test and .07, the result of a second test...
Every piece in the book has been submitted to the test of being read aloud by Professor Copeland, and the aim of the volume is primarily to be read aloud. Professor Copeland has written an essay upon literature and the art of writing that stands as an introduction...
...Harvard Club, which finished third last year, is expected to put the first team men to a severe test. The feature match of the afternoon will be the 4 o'clock clash between Captain H. N. Rawlins '27, who figured heavily in the successes of last year, and P. E. Callanan...