Word: airport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Mathews scorns the Junior Prom or the Hasty Pudding dance--perhaps they are not exciting enough?--at least she is fast becoming proficient down at the East Boston Airport, where her flying ability is highly rated. Every pleasant day she dons greasy overalls and tinkers with airplane engines under the supervision of men working at the hangars...
...thousands and thousands had safely done before, 14 people went up sightseeing in a trimotored Ford plane at the Newark, N, J., airport last week. Motor trouble developed. The pilot tried a forced landing near railroad tracks. He could not prevent his machine, which was traveling 70 m. p. h., from smashing into a gondola filled with sand. All the passengers were killed. It was the worst air accident in U. S. history...
Bureaucrat Young. Clarence M. Young, Director of the Department of Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...
Each candidate will be expected to go to the airport at least one afternoon a week to work on the plane and to help the field manager in any way possible. There will also be a small amount of clerical work to be done. At the end of the competition, from ten to 15 men will be elected to membership in the club. These may start flying at once upon their election and will be entitled to take a full course of instruction under licensed transport pilots...
...annual report of the president to the club stated, that at the end of next week, the club's Travel-air plane will be taken to the airport in Boston and given a test flight and that full instruction in the art of landing will be given in the plane, for the first time, under the tutelage of transport pilots from the commercial companies at the field...