Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wright Aero...
Jubilantly Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who last spring flew the Arctic and is now at Deception Island to fly to the South Pole, last week sent radiograms -to the Lockheed Aircraft Co.: "Both Lockheed [Vega] [mono] planes performed splendidly on first Antarctic flight"; to the Wright Aeronautical Corp.: "Whirlwinds [motors] performing perfectly on first Antarctic flight ever made;" to the Hearst papers, his backers: "Mild weather has melted snow on landing field, so tests were made with wheels...
...course, they err. Señor Santos-Dumont was flying dirigibles when Otto Lilienthal in Germany, Percy Pilcher in England, Samuel Pierpont Langley, the Wrights and Octave Chanute in the U. S. were perfecting airplane wings and gliding with them, when the Langley motored plane tried to fly in 1903 and the Wright motor plane actually did fly a couple of months later. Alberto Santos-Dumont did not fly a plane until...
Married. Edwin Crane Wilbur, play-wright-actor, who co-starred with once-famed Cinemactress Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline; and Beatrice Edna Blinn, actress-niece of Actor Holbrook Blinn; in London. Actress Blinn is Actor Wilbur's third wife. His second, Suzanne Caubet, a niece of the late Sarah Bernhardt, divorced...
...biggest passenger plane ever built in the U. S. last week flew up & down for demonstration flights at the Bristol, Pa., airport of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., its builders. It is a high wing monoplane with three Wright Cyclone 525 h.p. motors that can carry it and a 7½ ton load at 130 m. p. h. cruising speed, at 155 m. p. h. high speed. In its cabin is one stateroom with a sleeping compartment, and seats for 20 passengers and two pilots. Keystone's President Edgar N. Gott named it the Patrician...