Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lockheed Orion, a seven-passenger cabin plane with low wing and retractable landing gear, designed to fly 220 m. p. h., first of a fleet to be operated on Bowen air lines between Washington and Dallas...
Even as Col. Lindbergh joined the staff of T. A. T. and Pan American Airways, and as Capt. Coste took office with France's Air-Union, so did Wing-Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith return home from his famed flights to become managing director of Australian National Airways Ltd. One day last month one of his company's Fokker monoplanes, the Southern Cloud, took off from Sydney for Melbourne, over 450 mi. distant, with five passengers and two pilots. It passed over Wangaratta, about 300 mi. along its course, was reported again near King Lake, 40 mi. north...
...monoplane distinctly and purposely suggestive of the famed old "Model T" Ford automobile. He named it the "Sky Car," admitting (hoping) that "the public, in its usual fashion, is likely ... to dub it something less formal." The Sky Car is a low-slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under 1,000 lb. Anything but racy, it looks...
...formed on the wings. . . . Ice formed on the instruments and confused the pilot. . . . The pilot found himself suddenly too near the ground and jerked his controls too sharply, tearing off the wing. . . . A propeller blade snapped. . . . Those theories and many others were heard last week. But there was no final answer to the question: What caused the Transcontinental & Western Air plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried...
...Department inspectors dug the engines out of the earth to find that the right outboard engine had no propeller blades nor propeller hub, although the safety nut which holds them in place was still intact. The hub must have been broken. If, as reported, ice collected on the wings then it may have collected on the propeller hub too. A piece of ice dislodged from the hub might have struck a whirling blade and broken it. The shock (estimated 100,000 Ib.) caused by a breaking blade could have broken the hub, smashed the wing...