Word: radius
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Lost. Lieutenant Commander H. C. MacDonald, D. S. C. (British) R. N. (retired), and a DeHaviland Gypsy Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh...
...Boston Harvard Club since 1909 has had five scholarships which it awards annually to Freshmen of the University. It is stipulated that to receive a scholarship the Freshman must live within a radius of 20 miles from the State House in Boston and be a graduate of some public high or Latin school, within that radius. The scholarships are $500 each...
...John, you know that your naval bases in all parts of the world enable you to use small ships of short cruising radius with deadly effect. We are not so well provided with bases, and so we must have larger ships of longer cruising radius. When you propose to limit large ships and leave small ones unlimited, you are proposing to limit only the ships we chiefly need, while leaving unlimited the ships you chiefly need...
...before the World War, he worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where she was promptly rechristened Los Angeles. After that, he built the Count Zeppelin for commercial purposes. Now, in his 60's Dr. Eckener carries his six feet...
Said Builder Mahoney: "Col. Lindbergh did not desire a racing plane. He wanted a close, cabin-type plane with a longer cruising radius than is ordinarily available." (The new plane carries two tanks to hold, in toto, 115 gallons of gasoline, enough for 920 miles...