Word: mitchell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mitchel Field, L. I., was held an air carnival on behalf of the Army Relief Society. Twenty-four thousand spectators had thrills...
...assist in the carnival events, the great Army dirigible, TC-2, had flown from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., to Mitchel Field. A crew of 200 men seized the ropes to haul the airship to earth. But the using of 500 gallons of gas on the trip, and the higher temperature encountered on the Long Island field, gave the ship abnormal buoyancy and she rose unexpectedly from the ground. The enlisted men, when dragged a few feet from the ground, let go-as they are carefully trained to do. In his excitement, Private Aage Rasmussen, of the 62nd Aero Squadron...
...York Giants, beat Lieutenant H. J. Brow of the Navy in the Pulitzer Air Race at St. Louis (TIME, Oct. 15). He established a record of 243.67 miles an hour. Last week the two men, who are cronies, determined to settle the matter once more. They set out at Mitchel Field, L. I., and, taking the air alternately, they bettered each other's records six times in succession in the course of two days. Williams held it at the end, with 266.68 miles an hour-the fastest speed ever attained...
There seems no reasons why small airplanes should not ultimately be able to land with safety on tennis courts or even on broad city streets. But they cannot do it yet. To advertise an Air Carnival at Mitchel Field, L. I., Lieutenant Edwin Johnson obtained permission from the New York City authorities to land on Riverside Drive near Grant's tomb. His plane, the Speery Messenger, flew down under ideal conditions, but a skid on slippery asphalt caused a collision of plane and lamp post with damage to both. Still, the aviator flew back to Mitchel Field that same...
Boston has opened its airport. But New York, self-styled greatest city in the world, has none. Mitchel Field on Long Island is at least 45 minutes by train from the center of Manhattan. Governor's Island is, on the other hand, but a few minutes from the very heart of the city. Only a part of the island is used for military purposes. The Merchants' Association of New York has opened a great fight with the War Department to allow the island to be used for the legitimate and logical purpose of an airport...