Word: flyering
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...Mitchel Field, L. I., a new anti-stalling device to prevent accidents to beginners who frequently come to a speedy end by turning the nose of their plane up so that the engine stalls and they go down in a tail spin, was demonstrated last week. A flyer took the air, put his plane at a dangerous angle, lifted his hands above his head, and let the automatic safety device restore the plane to an even keel...
...evident to the campers that the flyer had gained something to his purpose by this scrutiny; he started his engine, and the plane with a roar began to bump over the field toward the river. He opened the throttle; the plane caromed faster, tilting awkwardly up and down as if it were lamed...
Besides being thoroughly versed in the technical development of flying craft, General Patrick has the advantage of being a flyer himself. He will be welcomed, therefore, not only as an expert, but as a devotee, a practitioner, in a field peculiarly modern and almost uniquely fascinating...
...feet, above the clouds and fog, flew out over the ocean, snapped the eclipse at 80-mile intervals previously mapped out between Santa Barbara and San Lower California. Each plane was manned by a pilot and a photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured satisfactory photographs of the eclipse, including the sun's corona...
...injected directly into the cylinder with the compressed air, without the necessity for a carburetor. The temperature of the mixture of fuel and air is so high that it will ignite spontaneously without any ignition system. The carburetor and the ignition systems are the great terrors of the flyer, as they are of the motorist, and their removal may mark a new era in airplane reliability...