Word: airfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he crossed the U. S. in 11 hr. 16 min. 10 sec. last month (TIME, Sept. 14). In the cockpit Major Doolittle had a copy of that morning's Ottawa Citizen. That afternoon he handed the paper to a newsman on Mexico City's Valbuena Airfield, 12 hr. 36 min. after leaving Ottawa. He gave himself up to a reception committee, spurned proffered tea and asked for three fingers of brandy, declared he was not very tired but "pretty well gassed" by carbon monoxide...
Although it is expected that the express-chute will be useful in delivering perishable cargo wherever there is no airfield, its invention was brought about directly by the needs of the Moscow newspaper Pravda ('Truth"). Pravda prints local editions in Leningrad, Kharkov, Tiflis and Novo-Sibirsk by delivering matrices by airplane and dropping them by parachute. With ordinary parachutes the matrices frequently were smashed...
Suddenly down upon the Four Winds Airfield at Madrid two days later swooped none other than Major Ramon Franco, Spain's transatlantic flyer who was imprisoned by the Berenguer Government for republican agitation but escaped month ago to France. There had been nothing to connect him with the Jaca uprising, but now he made an impassioned harangue to his fellow air officers. They armed a crowd of civilians. They flew over Madrid dropping exciting pamphlets...
Will TIME please explain, for the benefit of the unschooled, how infra-red rays, which are invisible, can aid fog beacons, airfield lights? (TIME, Sept...
...pressures (5 to 10 millimetres, compared to 760 millimetres in the sea-level atmosphere). The gases are made to glow by an alternating electric current flowing through them. Because of the penetrating quality of the infra-red rays given off, neon lamps are used as fog beacons, airfield lights...