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Word: wright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manufacture the autogiro for sale. At present there are two licensees-Pitcairn Aircraft Inc. of Willow Grove, Pa. and Kellett Aircraft Co. of Philadelphia. Other companies are said to be negotiating for rights. The autogiros sold were built by Pitcairn. They are special three-place jobs, powered with a Wright 300 h. p. J-6 motor and capable of 125 m. p. h. The sale price was $15,000. The light two-place sport model to be offered the public will be somewhat slower, will cost between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: For Sale: Autogiros | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...Flying Club has made plans to purchase a new training ship, which is to be delivered early in March. The aeroplane, which is a Travelair Trainer, has two cockpits, double controls, and is powered by a Curtis Wright Gypsy motor. It will supplant the Gypsy Moth which is now being used for training members who have not yet passed their license tests. The club owns another machine, a Curtis Robin, which was bought only last October, and which is now being used for cross-country work. The new one will be kept with the others either at the Boston airport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIYING CLUB PLANS PURCHASE OF NEW TRAINING AEROPLANE | 2/27/1931 | See Source »

Among the spectators at the demonstration, showing large teeth in a pleased grin, was Designer Albert Adams Merrill of White Plains, N. Y. who studied aero dynamics with Octave Chanute and Samuel Pierpont Langley before the Wright brothers made their first flight. Spare, spectacled, reddish-bearded and red-nosed; partially deaf; clad in a black overcoat and battered brown hat, his unprepossessing figure was like the popular notion of the hardworking, unfamed inventor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hands Off | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Horace's parents are divorced. His father, Russell Burt, resides in Los Angeles. His mother lived in Omaha until three years ago when she moved to St.Paul where her brother, Benjamin Wright Scandrett, famed railroad lawyer, is vice president of Northern Pacific. Another brother, Henry Alexander Scandrett, is president of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co.For two years Mrs. Burt and her brothers have been quietly, diligently searching for Horace, onetime student in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their search availed them nothing. Finally they resorted to the hope that Horace, who had been a thoroughgoing Post reader, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Horace Revealed | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Agnes Lee Hadley, relict of the late Herbert Spencer Hadley, onetime (1909-13) Governor of Missouri who died in 1927; and Henry Joseph Haskell, editor of the Kansas City Star (his first wife, Isabel Cummings, died in 1923; his second wife, Katherine Wright, sister of Air Pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright, died in 1929); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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