Word: icarus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence. Yet he succeeded in putting out the flames, in coming to earth alive, champion Champion, holder of the world's altitude record...
Last week the identical little cream-colored biplane with a Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that...
Pegasus, Daedalus & Icarus, Archytas, da Vinci, Mongolfier, Santos-Dumont, von Zeppelin, Langley-with these names, the historical roster of aviation, President Coolidge led up to his tribute to the Wright Brothers, in an address to the 125 delegates at the International Civil Aeronautics Conference (see p. 23), which President Coolidge had called to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk...
...course of Icarus, they went through the air to Athens, the place he never reached. The little hills and the brilliant city grew into the darkness under them. They landed at six in the evening and had a bitter wine with their dinner. They made a journey which many a splendid army has made in two months; by the middle of the spring afternoon they were in Marseilles...
Since the legendary exploit of Icarus man has been trying to find a means of flight, and many famous names are associated with the attempts. Now that the immediate end has been accomplished, it seems trivial for the Smithsonian Institute to quibble with one of the inventors who were chiefly responsible for the success. It is of little import whether the contributions of the Wrights were or were not minor improvements which only added the finishing touches to a mechanism almost complete. The fact remains that they gave final impetus to what is now one of the greatest of modern...