Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Muffled from toes to topknot, Lieut. Carlton G. Champion of the U. S. Navy last week climbed above Washington, D. C., as far as his Wright Apache seaplane, with a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, would take him. When he came down, his instruments were certified as showing 37,995 feet (7 1/5 miles), nearly a mile higher than the previous world's altitude record for seaplanes, made by Champion Champion...
After the success of his demonstration plane, Mr. Martin said that the performance of its air-cooled motor had made the water-cooled motor "obsolete" for aircraft. Air-cooled (Wright Whirlwind) motors have been used on the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd transatlantic flights and on the flight to Honolulu...
With a large Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors, it was not difficult for Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger of the U. S. Army to fly 2,400 miles. But they had to hit the comparatively minute Hawaiian Islands squarely on the head, or run a good chance of drowning in the Pacific...
Meanwhile, not all U. S. hearts still throbbed as one in affection for Colonel Lindbergh. At Dayton, Ohio, rancor still dwelt among the populace whom the flyer last fortnight "affronted" by driving through Dayton's back streets to visit Orville Wright, ancestor of aviation. Though Colonel Lindbergh had repeatedly explained his visit was wholly "unofficial" and had begged that there be no Dayton speeches or parade, eminent Daytonians were chagrined beyond gracefulness. Last week they were still bitterly quoting their police chief's description of the Lindbergh tactics: "a dirty, back-alley trick." Mayor Allen C. McDonald...
Aroused from sleep, the villagers of Ver-sur-Mer aided in dragging the America into shallow water, bringing ashore the three Wright Whirlwind engines which had not once whimpered during the flight. Although the distance between Roosevelt Field, L. I., and Ver-sur-Mer on the coast of Normandy is 3,477 miles, yet Commander Byrd estimated that the America flew some 4,200 miles during its 42 hours' journey...