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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for a handy amateur to build a glider out of spruce or pine, wire, and fabric. Design is quite like that for a monoplane. (One popular German model amazingly resembles a Lockheed-Vega.) Wingspan may be up to 65 feet (span of a staunch commercial Ford trimotored transport). But 25 feet is more practical for beginners. The National Glider Association at Detroit will furnish blue prints. However best advice warns against amateur construction, or patching together of old motored plane parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gliders | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Plane: a Lockheed-Vega monoplane with a 425 horsepower Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, made the trip at an average speed of 150 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Hawks & Grubb | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...made their observation? while flying their Lockhead-Vega plane in a 1,200-mile sally from their base on Deception Island, situated between Antarctica and Cape Horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wilkins' Discovery | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Bolivia and Paraguay, there was contained a procedure of conciliation designed to prevent war between them. There was actually in existence at the neutral capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, last week a conciliation commission as provided in the Gondra Convention, presided over by the Mexican Minister to Uruguay, Senor Fortunato Vega. Nonetheless, the position of the Bolivian Government as expounded by the newspaper El Norte was: "The sovereign Congress of Bolivia has never approved the Gondra Convention; and even if it had the convention tends to prevent armed conflicts, not to suppress them once they have begun, as in the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bolivia v. Paraguay | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Lockeed Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, Calif. / Vega Passenger / .$14,000-$21,000 / Used by Wilkins for his North Polar flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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