Word: planes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Pilot Richardson returned. The smoke over Santa Maria was grey and ominous. For miles around the verdure was burnt and hideous. Pilot Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept...
...wing of his Hamilton monoplane, Jess Johnson of Delray, Fla. fixed a 19-ft. air screw to turn horizontally as a helicopter vane. Last week at the Hamilton factory in Milwaukee, Mr. Johnson's co-worker Victor Allison, of West Palm Beach, set the vanes twirling. After pushing the plane for 25 yds, they raised her to 100 ft. off the ground. Then Mr. Allison turned on the regular propeller at the plane's nose. The machine rose to 1,000 ft., continued flying, an apparently successful demonstration of such a helicopteroid...
From Ohio over the stormy Alleghenies to the District of Columbia, then to Long Island, a heavy trimotored Ford plane flew last week. Except at take-offs and landings the pilot scarcely ever touched the controls. A new device, a gyroscopic stabilizer similar to the stabilizers which help keep ships from rolling, kept the Ford on even keel through wind and fog. When gusts twisted the plane from its course, the stabilizer returned it automatically...
This week-end the Flying Club is undertaking its first cross-country flight of the season. The plane, piloted by R. Gilmor '31 and G. Rand '32, will fly to the Aviation Country Club at Hicksville, Long Island, today and will be flown from there by other members who are spending the week-end on Long Island. The purpose of the flight is to provide experience in cross-country flying for qualified pilots, and to create an outside interest in the club and its activities...
Harvard undergraduates may fly to the Michigan game this week-end, according to arrangements now being made by the Colonial Air Transport. "The Harvard Football Special" as the plane, or planes, will be known, will take off from the East Boston Airport either Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, according to the wishes of those making reservations...