Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present A entry, the stairway and rooms 15, 25, 34, and 35 will be walled off, and will not be materially changed next year. From this wall out to the end of the wing the present rooms will be removed and completely changed. The wreckers will start tomorrow, and it will be three weeks before the reconstruction work on the house will begin...
...Machine. An autogiro has a fuselage and tail surfaces like that of the conventional airplane; also it has the usual motor & propeller in its nose, and uncommonly wide landing gear. But in place of a wing is an abortive stub with upturned tips, affixed as on a low-wing monoplane, to provide lateral stability, to carry the ailerons and to provide a mounting for the undercarriage. The real supporting surfaces (i. e. wings) are embodied in four great rotating blades, or vanes, affixed to an upright tripod. It is this rotor that gives the ship its windmill appearance and that...
...Roosevelt Field, N. Y. is a hangar which for two years was always locked, its windows frosted white to guard against peepers. Within strange craft were being built: a great twin-motored plane with two adjustable wings in tandem, with no ailerons and no tail assembly; and a motorless glider of similar design. The wings were designed something like a bird's, with the trailing edge of the front wing fluted, or "feathered." Scarcely less mysterious to the inhabitants of the field was the ship's inventor, Emry Davis, 74, retired manufacturer of inkstands and inks from which...
...committee: E. S. Amazeen '31, Garrett Birkhoff '32, J. B. Campbell '31, M. M. dePicaba '31, A. B. Emmons '33, Phillips Finlay '31, C. M. Norton 2L, Donald Prince '31, R. C. Robbins '32, William Stix '32, Oscar Sutermeister '32, Peregrine White '33, P. M. Whitman '32, and Wilson Wing...
Designer Merrill has been working on the principle of the movable wing since 1913, as had many another before him. He built a weird craft embodying the idea in 1926 and flew it at Clover Field, Los Angeles. Again in the National Air Races of 1928 he demonstrated another, built by his students of California Institute of Technology. It performed well but was impractical, was dubbed "the dill pickle" for its color and general conformation. Thereafter he obtained the financial backing of Hannibal C. Ford, president of Ford Instrument Co. Inc., a subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc., which gave...