Word: wings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grouse coverts. Three-quarters of a mile away the beaters started moving toward them, a line of schoolboys and gillies waving flags, beating dishpans. Crouched in the bottom of each butt was a nimble-fingered loader, ready to hand each "gun" his second weapon. Began the fastest most difficult wing shooting in the world. Flying 50 miles an hour, like rocketing black bullets, grouse zoomed straight over the butts. Hundreds of birds fell, hundreds more escaped to fly again another...
...Mercury's wing spread is only 18 ft., her length 23 feet. Her motor is a 24-cylinder Packard, generating more than 1,100 h. p. Lieutenant Williams, expert in motors, metals and fabrics operating through high speed's, naturally expects her to win the Schneider Cup at Cowes, England, next month. To do that she must surpass the 318 m. p. h. attained by the Italian Major Mario de Bernardi...
...Williams taxied down the river. She made 110 m. p. h. and started to lift from the water. Another 100 ft. and she would have been in the air. That was a fact upon which he had calculated. But at that speed the twist of the motor forced one wing to feather the water. He figured out a way of overcoming the effect of the torque. The propeller sucked something up from the water and bent itself, an unforseen event. Later, leisurely, safely and, if possible, secretly Lieutenant Williams was to actually fly his Mercury along Chesapeake Bay before taking...
...Capt. William J. Flood of the Army Air Corps, who earlier in the year landed a blimp on the roof of the Munitions Building in Washington, offered and proceeded to blimp the senator to "the front door of the capitol," depositing him conveniently in the plaza near the Senate wing. Predicted the most air-conscious senator: "That's the way all congressmen will arrive here soon...
Super Super-Whale. An early morning sun glittered on Lake Constance, Switzerland. Hundreds of people along the shore at Altenrheim eyed a fabulous structure at the water's edge-a yacht-like thing beneath a single wing 157 ft. wide. Above the wings were six turrets supporting six pairs of tandem motors. Mechanics, climbing up through the turrets, inspected the motors. Below the mono-wing on each side was a float like the half wing of a sesquiplane. The great structure was the mighty enlargement of Dr. Claude Dornier's Super-Whale, which he had been secretly building...