Word: vane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Helicopteroid. Under each wing of his Hamilton monoplane, Jess Johnson of Delray, Fla. fixed a 19-ft. air screw to turn horizontally as a helicopter vane. Last week at the Hamilton factory in Milwaukee, Mr. Johnson's co-worker Victor Allison, of West Palm Beach, set the vanes twirling. After pushing the plane for 25 yds, they raised her to 100 ft. off the ground. Then Mr. Allison turned on the regular propeller at the plane's nose. The machine rose to 1,000 ft., continued flying, an apparently successful demonstration of such a helicopteroid...
...wind-vane on the Delaware & Hudson Building in Albany, N. Y., is a miniature of Hendrick Hudson's good ship Half-Moon. Early one morning last week this vane stood very still. It was a fine calm morning, but the Hudson River at Albany was not calm. By the pier of the Albany Yacht Club, the river's grey-green surface had been transformed into dirty, bubbly whipped cream. A fleet of 133 little launches, each with an outboard motor attached, was milling about, racing its engines, darting hither and yon like a swarm of noisy water beetles...
...have such certification. As a safety factor practically every plane carried a stabilizing apparatus which might be fixed to prevent it from suddenly going into stall, tail spin, or nose dive. Otto W. Greene, gaunt Elyria, Ohio, inventor, showed an aero-dynamic automatic control. It consisted of a small vane projected from a wing of his model plane. As the plane tilted or teetered the vane lagged and activated levers which forced the controls automatically to pull his model back to its course. No practical plane yet uses this device. Only one ship at the show was equipped with...
...Horse Industry Association. Their chef had proved, he said, that even meats not generally esteemed could achieve a rare deliciousness. Minister of Commerce Bokanowski added the inspiring information as to how many pounds of horse, donkey and mule meat are annually consumed in France. Subsequent toasts to le cheval, Vane and le mulct were capped, of course, by the final and inevitable "A la Belle France...
...bronze sculpture, iron work, and ceramics by Hunt Diederich, is on exhibition this week in the Water Color room of the Fogg Museum. The versatility of Mr. Diederich is illustrated by the variety of the examples of his work. There are bronze statues, fire screens, a wrought iron wether vane, silhouettes, and several decorated plates in the exhibit...