Word: mitchell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apartment-dwellers, nerve-racked office workers, pedestrians in city streets and all men with sensitive tympanums, pricked their ears to words of Engineer A G. Bissell, speaking last week before the U. S. Air Maintenance Conference at Mitchel Field, L. I. Said Engineer Bissell: "Engineering tests have proved that electrically welded joints in structural steel are much stronger than riveted joints. The advancement in electric welding is making possible the use of the process on a large as well as a small scale. Only a few further steps in this advancement are needed before it will be practicable to build...
Spectators who had gathered (TIME, Oct. 19) to see the final events of the Aero Games at Mitchel Field, L. I., heard what is generally described as a "ripping crash." But it was only part of the press stand that had collapsed; no one was hurt. Uninterested, the spectators turned back to watch Lieut. Cyrus K. Bettis of the Army race Lieut. Alford J. Williams of the Navy in the 200-kilometre speed test for the Pulitzer...
...President's Air Inquiry Board (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.) took only three days' testimony last week and then adjourned so that those of its members that were able to might attend the Pulitzer Air Races at Mitchel* Field, L. I. (see Page 26, AERONAUTICS...
...This field is not named, as many people ignorantly suppose, after Col. William Mitchell. It is named after John Purroy Mitchel, onetime (1913-17) Mayor of New York, who was killed while piloting a plane in Texas...
...crowd on Mitchel Field, Long Island, watched a covey of 16 airplanes, some big, some small, all noisy, whirl once around the flying field and diminish until they were no more than a dash of black pepper on the horizon. The planes in that covey were the entrants in the first race of the Mitchel Field Airplane Tournament...