A flyer block of nylon, used in textile machinery, travels as fast as 15,000 revolutions per minute without lubrication. Attached to a spindle in the spinning operation, the flyer clock holds wires which provide necessary tension to the yarn. The...
Text from back of image: Photo shows Miss Kathlene Martyn film star, presenting Pekinese, 'Aero' to Captain Harry A. Bruno veteran flyer who will attempt flight to Arctic Circle this summer. The animal will accompany Capt. Bruno and eight...
Text from back of image: "Lieut. Herbert C. Lichtenberger, United States Army flyer, acting as instructor at Randolph Field, TX was sentenced for ten years by a court-martial today at the Army post of Fort Sam Houston, TX on a charge of robbing the...
Text from back of photo: "President Coolidge presenting Major Herbert A. Dargue with certificate of the distinguished flying service cross as the Pan American Flyers arrive in Washington"
[Pan American Flyers - Major Herbert A. Dargue, President...
Text from back of image: 'Lieut. W.S. Garrett, U.S.N., was killed and his observer, Chief Rigger S.C. Funk, was burned seriously when the navy plane in which they were making a landing crashed and burned at Yuma, Ariz., on February 18th. The men...
Text from back of image: "A recent visitor to Washington was Capt. Vaino Bremer of Finland, who is making a leisurely around-the-world flight. He was a competitor in the Chicago air races."
Text from back of image: "Roscoe Turner, who was disqualified in the recent Thompson Trophy Race at Los Angeles, for failing to round a pylon, pictured as he called on the Natioanl Aeronautic Assn. in Washington, DC, July 12th to protest his...
Text from back of image: "Miles from an airport and with his failing motor covered with escaping oil Lt. Robert H. Terrill, Army test pilot, saved his life with a spectacular forced landing in a beet field this afternoon at 107th Street and Central...
Text from back of photo: 'The first relic of the round-the-world flight to be brought back is the map used by Lieut. Erik Nelson, engineering officer of the party, on the first leg of the long trip. It was brought back by a friend to whom Nelson...
