The first practice flying saucer may turn out to be this plane that will carry 100 passengers at speeds of 600 miles per hour. Six pivoting jet engines mounted around the edge of the plane will life it and land it almost vertically with downward...
Text from back of image: "Photos shows Juan de la Cierva, pilot and inventor, in plane, and H. F. Pitcairn, before hop. Successful tests flights were made at Pitcairn Field, Philadelphia, by Juan de la Cierva, with his auto-giro airplane. With...
Caption on photo: "Chute-a-Caron, Dam for the Alcoa Power Co., Saguenay River, Canada, 1930." Typed caption reads: "Current of stream too swift to permit construction of coffer dam. Dam was built vertically into air then supporting rods were blown...
Caption on photo: "Chute-a-Caron, Dam for the Alcoa Power Co., Saguenay River, Canada, 1930." Typed caption reads: "Current of stream too swift to permit construction of coffer dam. Dam was built vertically into air then supporting rods were blown...
Caption on photo: "Chute-a-Caron, Dam for the Alcoa Power Co., Saguenay River, Canada, 1930." Typed caption reads: "Current of stream too swift to permit construction of coffer dam. Dam was built vertically into air then supporting rods were blown...