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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirsty plane flies in a straight course and at a steady speed, the refueling plane maneuvers into position above. When the two planes are in line, at even speed and 15 to 25 feet apart, the upper one drops a rubber hose. As the hose whips about, a man below catches its free end and inserts it into his fuel tank. Thus the two planes are connected by a sort of umbilical cord through which gasoline flows. In the Question Mark experiment, the feed hose would sometimes break loose, the men below would get drenched. But drenching was an incident...
...roughly resembles a cannon on wheels. It can be trundled over a flying field wherever desired. Within the trough of the barrel a can of gasoline, oil or food is placed. The container rests against a powerful spring and has attached to it a rope. The rope hangs over two vertical, widely spaced arms fixed to the catapult chassis. In the mechanics of catapulting, a plane comes sweeping toward the machine about 20 feet from the ground. From the underside of the fuselage a rope dangles. At the rope's end is a metal hook. As the plane passes over...
...press despatch that his Secretary of the Treasury had flown in a plane over San Diego, Calif. The President was furious. He had warned his Cabinet officers specifically against flying during the War, when they were precious to him. And now the man who was not only his Number Two man in the Cabinet, but his son-in-law to boot, had flown...
...father-in-law finally said: "Well, Mac, I'll have to admit with reluctance that you were right in taking the air." For a decade after that, however, "Mac" let two of his sons who were in the Army Air Corps during the War, do the flying for the family...
...primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs to anyone, even to the Americans. In their...