Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lieut. Cyrus K. Bettis, 33, crack army airman and winner of last year's Pulitzer Speed Trophy; at Washington, D. C., of spinal meningitis. Lieutenant Bettis' fatal illness was due to inflammation of the nerve sheaths due to injuries received a fortnight ago when his plane crashed against a mountain near Lewistown, Pa. in a fog (TIME, Sept...
...foolproof" plane that must some day be developed to make flying as general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower landing speeds, steeper landing angles...
Able Commander van der Kun, squeezing, sprucely attired, from his conning tower hatch, said: "We left Helder on May 27 and seldom steamed our maximum of 18 knots, since we are making a long distance run and cannot risk accidents. Because of our slow speed our voyage was similar to that of Columbus. Although, in case of an accident we would have been helpless without a mother ship, the men never showed a, qualm when we passed out of sight of land. . . . I am always pessimistic on a submarine, for that is safest. I do not let even...
...mile Ford Reliability Tour around a rough quadrangle cornered by St. Paul, Lincoln, Neb., Cincinnati and Cleveland (TIME, Aug. 9). Each entry had been rated according to its fuel consumption, manageability, carrying power, and other qualities, leaving it up to the pilots to gain further points by good speed and navigation in getting from point to point. Not a great deal of figuring was needed to award first prize to Pilot Walter Beach and his Wright-motored Travel Air No. 2. With perfect equipment, and higher speed than most, he had been able to leave the stopping places last...
...able president of Stutz Motor Car Co., returned from Europe last week. His weightiest statement was that his French consulting engineer and agent, Signor Bugatti, "the greatest automobile engineer in Europe," will produce a car twice as big as the Packard Eight. Its wheelbase will be 176 in., its speed 120 miles an hour. The Weyman Body Co. of London and Paris will build a factory at Indianapolis, Ind. Last week at least one newspaper of every large U. S. city carried a full page advertisement, whose streamer headline reads: HOW THE VISION OF ONE MAN revolutionized the trend...