Word: weather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inventor Easton, who has had experience making sets for the U. S. Weather Bureau, expects his radios to survive even violent crashes. His Weather Bureau sets are sent up in balloons, are often in operating condition even after falling from great heights. A slender, blond young Englishman who went to the U. S. in 1930, Physicist Easton enrolled at Caltech two years ago to take his Master's degree, is now working for his Ph.D. To date he has built no working model of his design. Said he: "There is no reason to build a working model. Any radio...
...though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show her course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled...
...French have also flown mail for years across the South Atlantic. For the last year the experimental S. S. Carimare has been dawdling in the middle of the ocean collecting weather information; for the first time Air France Transatlantique (combination of Air France and Compagnie Generale Transatlantique) is on the point of sending planes across the North Atlantic. This month and next, the hulking, 40-ton, six-motored Latecoere Lt. de Vaisseau Paris will make half-a-dozen round trips...
...front cover) Weather: Democratic...
...rich, reticent, scientifically-bent Howard Hughes was thus modestly dismissing had been a flight so precisely steered that it extended only 20 miles more than the direct course planned around the top of the world, although almost every mile of it was flown by instruments, often against fiercely adverse weather conditions. Halved had been Lindbergh's 33½-hour time to Paris, halved the late great Wiley Post's solo dash around the world five years earlier...