Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aero Club of Pennsylvania trophy, the first home being Basil Rowe of Keyport, N. J., in a Thomas Morse SE-4. Pilot C. S. "Casey" Jones, a celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead of the "mystery" racer of Harry F. Pitcairn, Philadelphia millionaire enthusiast...
...Democratic wing, John B. Elliott, McAdoo man, onetime Washington newspaper correspondent, opposes one Isidore B. Dockweiler for the Senate nomination...
...fleet, which numbers at present, in Panama, Hawaii, the Philippines, etc., about 100. The Cyclops is a monster many times as formidable, many times as agile as its fabled namesake.* Standing more than 20 ft. high, with 85 ft. of wingspread and a 13-ft "gap" (between her two wings) she will be driven by her single Packard motor (an 825-h.p. V-type) at 110 m.p.h. Her propeller is enormous-a 15½-ft. traction blade, of such thrust that it is geared to one half the motor's speed turning only 1,100 revolutions per minute. (Smaller...
King George, with Queen Mary, postponed their arrival at an important cricket match last week long enough to "open" a new wing in the big modern-and-foreign galleries at the National Gallery of Modern Art, known as the Tate Galleryš over by the Thames riverbank. There they greeted the donor of the new galleries, Sir Joseph Duveen, merchandizer of Art to U. S. and other millionaires...
...time had come, Herr Rumpler said, to build an enormous airplane that he had designed, a plane with ten 28-cylinder motors capable of 10,000 total horsepower; with wings each spanning 400 feet, in which there would be cabins for the 130 passengers whom the air leviathan could whisk across the Atlantic in 36 hours. There would be six huge pontoons for landing, if necessary, on the sea, and in these a crew of 25 mechanics would be berthed. Tons of trunks and fuel for 16 hours of top-speed flying were provided with stowage and lifting power. From...