Word: mi.
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aeronautics men, their main problem having been to build durable transmitters light enough.' Success was brilliantly demonstrated to laymen last week when Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and Radioman Zeh Bouck communicated for an hour by their airplane radio in Buenos Aires, with the New York Times office 5,838 mi. away...
...half ago Engineer Hoover Jr. was engaged by Western Air Express to set up its communications system. Starting with three small stations between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, he now directs a network of 27 stations spread over western U. S., guiding radio-equipped planes along 15,000 mi. of airways. His staff numbers 75 engineers, researchers, operators, maintenance men. On his advice, Western Air bought $200,000 worth of airplane radio equipment. From communications chief he was last month promoted to chief engineer of the company (TIME, June...
Instead, flying enthusiasts found themselves, for the second time in a month, paying homage to a woman. Miss Winifred S. Brown, 26, daughter of a Manchester butcher, won the 750-mi. free-for-all handicap, took her place on a popular pedestal beside Amy Johnson, London-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2). Betting odds against Miss Brown were 49-to-1. In her AvroAvian biplane she started 14th, pulled up to seventh at Bristol, third at Manchester, disposed of Waghorn and Orlebar on her way to Newcastle. Her average speed...
...Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start, was the Goodyear Zeppelin, piloted by R. J. Blair and F. A. Trotter, near Greensburg, Ky. with the winning distance of 850 mi. Second: City of Detroit (700 mi.); third: United Van Service (685 mi.), landing at Russellville and Kirkmansville, Ky., respectively...
London and Winnipeg are separated by twelve days travel. But a straight line drawn from North Scotland to Winnipeg passes across the middle of Greenland, through the Faroe Islands and Iceland- nowhere over more than 300 mi. of water. That is why a party of scientists and airmen (of only 23 years average age) sailed last week from England for the Faroe Islands in Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic ship Quest. As the British arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring...