Word: mitchells
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Colyumist Kahn writes with the authority of 2,700 hours flight, including considerable test and night flying. In demonstrating the Cabot Aerial Pickup device to postoffice officials at Mitchel Field last summer, he made 99 successful pickups in 100 trials. He has five planes in his own ("Roweka") hangar at Roosevelt Field, L. I.; a Vought Corsair, a Bellanca Pacemaker, an Ireland amphibian, a Fleet, a hybrid Standard with a Sikorsky wing...
...west of Cheyenne. In the "zero-zero" (no ceiling, no visibility) weather, Lieut. Caldwell had crashed into a fence post trying to land. With bad weather still ahead of him over the Alleghenies, Lieut. Woodring prudently transferred to a consolidated Fleetster piloted by a brother officer, landed at Mitchel Field, N. Y. two nights before the Leviathan's sailing...
Things Thrown. By the fireboat John Purroy Mitchel: eight sparkling plumes of harbor water. By Broadway: 70 tons of ticker tape, wastepaper. torn telephone books.* By other onlookers along the route from Manhattan's Battery to Washington: hats, flowers, confetti, kisses...
...aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, has spent three years in developing a device by which the pilot may see his signals. Known as the visual radio range beacon, the invention won public notice last autumn when Lieut. James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his famed blind flight at Mitchel Field, L. I. (TIME...
...into the Guggenheim Fund world-wide safe aircraft contest after it opened two years ago. Rewards were to include $100,000 for the safest plane and $10.000 for each of five safe ones which could meet the competition's harsh but just tests. Only 15 planes appeared at Mitchel Field, L. I.. for trial. Six withdrew without trying. Others failed. Last week only two possible winners remained, the slotted-wing Curtiss (TIME, Jan. 6) and Frederick Handley Page's slotted-wing entry, an English make. The Handley Page failed, although only because it could not glide...