Word: flight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...increased the general interest in the possible development of the helicopter. In these experiments the machine is shot off a starting platform, much as a dart is thrown in the air. The start is so swift that the machine is able to pick up its flying speed and continue flight with its own engine...
...generally known that the N. C. flying boats which not long ago accomplished the successful trans-Atlantic flight, were the first heavier-than-air machines in this country to be equipped with electric self-starters for each of their big Liberty engine motors...
...consider that it is highly advisable that, preferably as a branch of universal training, the Government provide aviation fields at the various colleges. If they cannot give practice in actual flying, they can at least teach the theory of flight and the construction of airplanes...
...comparatively light supply of fuel. Passing over its mother ships stationed along the route it could pick up supplies of fuel from the mastheads. This is not as impractical as it seems. In the fall of 1918 I succeeded in picking up a load of 150 pounds in a flight by means of an elastic rope...
...majority of flying accidents are caused by the lack of good landing places. If, for example, it could be made possible for a pilot flying from Boston to New York to be never out of gliding distance of a sufficiently large and even landing ground the danger of the flight would be practically eliminated...