Word: compasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wichita the air became so bumpy that it knocked his compass needle askew, left Pilot Hughes dependent upon maps and city lights below. He recognized the lights of Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis at hour intervals. Near Indianapolis a tailwind lifted his speed to 295 m.p.h., carried him past Columbus in 35 minutes. There the moon came up, gave him a definite guidepost to the Atlantic Coast, which he reached in another 105 minutes...
...York in 13 hr., 34 min., 5 sec. Mrs. Putnam's non-stop record, made in 1932, went down by 5 hr., 29 min. Miss Ingalls probably would have beaten the men's non-stop record of 13 hr., 27 min.† if her radio compass had not broken down near Columbus...
...broad clearing they erected seven buildings including a power plant with 9-ton Diesel-electric generators, kitchen & mess hall, refrigeration plant with six months' food supplies, airport manager's office, boathouse with two launches, gasoline & oil storage station, machinery storehouse, radio transmitting and receiving station and radio compass station. In addition there are four houses as living quarters for the staff, other quarters for the help. Some day transpacific air passengers may see these improvements as their plane stops briefly at the Midway base...
Lear homing compass, she reached Washington in half the time it took Colonel Lindbergh to fly the same distance...
Scientific purpose of Mrs. Putnam's flight was to test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...