Aircraft Year Book, Volumen2Fay Leone Faurote American Aviation Publications, 1920 |
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... miles is the comfortable suburban distance by train at present , the aero commuter does his day's work and — granted the establishment of proper terminals is a hundred miles in the country an hour or so later . There has been much ...
... miles is the comfortable suburban distance by train at present , the aero commuter does his day's work and — granted the establishment of proper terminals is a hundred miles in the country an hour or so later . There has been much ...
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... miles and over than any other means of conveyance . At the present stage of aeronautical development the commercial speed of a well designed transport airplane can be taken to average from 85 to 90 miles an hour . This is the speed ...
... miles and over than any other means of conveyance . At the present stage of aeronautical development the commercial speed of a well designed transport airplane can be taken to average from 85 to 90 miles an hour . This is the speed ...
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... miles distant , at Kitty Hawk , where , seventeen years ago , the Wright Brothers solved the age long mysteries of hu- man flight . A few friends will be taken up from Charleston during the stay , and thence on to Daytona and Palm Beach ...
... miles distant , at Kitty Hawk , where , seventeen years ago , the Wright Brothers solved the age long mysteries of hu- man flight . A few friends will be taken up from Charleston during the stay , and thence on to Daytona and Palm Beach ...
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... miles . There were flown 128,255 miles , a performance of 92.73 per cent . During the same period there were only 37 forced landings due to mechanical troubles in flight . In the operation of the Aerial Mail for nearly one year and ...
... miles . There were flown 128,255 miles , a performance of 92.73 per cent . During the same period there were only 37 forced landings due to mechanical troubles in flight . In the operation of the Aerial Mail for nearly one year and ...
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... miles , and had carried 485,120 letters . It cost in service , per hour , $ 48.34 . Repairs to this machine cost ... miles traveled and 7,720,840 letters carried . The revenues from airplane mail stamps amounted to $ 159,700 and the cost ...
... miles , and had carried 485,120 letters . It cost in service , per hour , $ 48.34 . Repairs to this machine cost ... miles traveled and 7,720,840 letters carried . The revenues from airplane mail stamps amounted to $ 159,700 and the cost ...
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Página 5 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Página 95 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Página 92 - under way," within the meaning of these rules, when she is not at anchor, or made fast to the shore, or aground. RULES CONCERNING LIGHTS AND so FORTH The word " visible " in these rules when applied to lights shall mean visible on a dark night with a clear atmosphere.
Página 93 - The rules concerning lights shall be complied with in all weathers from sunset to sunrise, and during such time no other lights which may be mistaken for the prescribed lights shall be exhibited.
Página 94 - Risk of collision can, when circumstances permit, be ascertained by carefully watching the compass bearing of an approaching vessel. If the bearing does not appreciably change, such risk should be deemed to exist.
Página 296 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution, and to determine the problems which should be experimentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions.
Página 95 - Every vessel which is directed by these Rules to keep out of the way of another vessel shall, if the circumstances of the case admit, avoid crossing ahead of the other.
Página 95 - Where by any of these Rules one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.
Página 86 - The high contracting parties recognize that every Power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory. For the purpose of the present convention the territory of a state shall be understood as including the national territory, both that of the mother country and of the colonies, and the territorial waters adjacent thereto.
Página 86 - Each contracting state undertakes in time of peace to accord freedom of innocent passage above its territory to the private aircraft of the other contracting states, provided that the conditions laid down in the present convention are observed.