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Word: winging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keystone Patrician-18-passenger cabin monoplane fitted with 3 radial motors, one in nose and others on each side on bracing struts of the high fixed wing. The whole ship is fabric covered. It started from Long Island last week on a 75-day tour of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Identifying planes on. the fly is far more difficult than identifying automobiles. Every plane has on the under side of a wing and on its rudder a letter and number. Those are the Department of Commerce's permit symbols. The Department has issued more than a hundred permits. Rarely, except with field glasses, are the symbols discernible from the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Hamilton Silver Eagle-4-to-8 seat cabin monoplane, all metal; high wing tapering in chord and depth; short strut bracing to rectangular fuselage; pilot cabin under leading wing edge, glass-enclosed; passenger cabin goes back with windows to each seat, and wide doors on either side; radial motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Ryan Brougham-5-seat cabin monoplane; one-piece wing, braced by 2 pairs of tube struts; radial engine at front of a tubular section starting with sloping windshield; fuselage small; rudder roundish; split undercarriage joined to wing struts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Ford-3-engined 10-12 seater cabin monoplane; high wing, all metal like the rest of the plane in corrugated sheet; fuselage low slung, heavy; rudder high, wide sweeping; three radial engines, one in nose and two suspended under the wing on either side; pilot's cockpit in advance of leading edge; wide wheel base; steerable wheel on tail skid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Manhattan Show | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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