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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arid Mojave Desert, a queer, experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: All Wing | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...them as they are still to each other, but he criticized rather than collaborated. Their first play (Esgrima y amor) was given in Seville when Serafin was 16. The tradition of fecundity commonly attached to Spanish dramatists, largely due to the labors of the prodigious Lope Felix de Vega (1562-1635) who wrote 520 plays, has been upheld in a more credible fashion by the Quinteros. Between 1897 and 1912 they wrote more than 80 of their sly, kindly, classically re strained dramas. Among the most popu lar: El Patio, Las Flares, El genio alegre, Malvaloca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 10, 1930 | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Manufacturer William Edward Boeing last week produced a military single-seater biplane which he considered the fastest U. S. fighter, capable of 209 m.p.h. The fastest commercial ship now being made: Lockheed Vega, which carries six passengers at 180 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fastest Fighter | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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