Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course covered 16 countries and three continents, required night & day flying over country perilous with jagged mountains, snake-infested jungles, deserts, hurricanes and typhoons. Toughest stretch was across the Syrian Desert where blinding sandstorms sometimes rise 20,000 ft. and huge kitebirds menace aerial navigation. Not much easier was the 2,210-mi. jump from Allahabad to Singapore, with its Bay of Bengal water hop nearly as long as the North Atlantic. To the participants in the race Lloyd's of London gave a 1-in-12 chance of being killed. Purely a long-distance speed race, the MacRobertson...
Mildenhall Airport, England, Oct. 17--Twenty-one probable starters in the greatest air race ever known--the "Aerial Derby" from England to Australia--underwent weighing and checking tests today in preparation for the start at 6.30 a.m. Saturday...
...purchased in October a 90-horse-power Fairchild two place monoplane. This ship was used extensively by club members. It was taken to New York several times for weekends by men who were licensed pilots. In January of this year, the ship was equipped with skiis and used for aerial photography in the White Mountains. Later in the spring Beekman Fairbank '34, then secretary of the club, won two events in the Norwood Air Meet using this ship. Several men with no previous experience had their first flight training with the club and successfully obtained their licenses...
...theatrical producer; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. In 36 years he produced more than 200 plays (Mlle Modiste, Chin-Chin, Blossom Time, Sunny, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). In 1914 he took over Manhattan's big Hippodrome where he installed skating rinks, swimming tanks, staged extravagant spectacles with skating, diving, aerial ballets. Headliners who first appeared on the Hippodrome stage included Annette Kellerman, Anna Pavlova, Gaby Deslys...
...Manhattan chop-suey restaurant were Edmund On Wong and Fong Tru Shek. Inseparable, they prospered together, became air-minded, bought a joint interest in an Avro Avian biplane. Their ambition was to become Chinese Air Force pilots. Last week Student Pilots Wong & Fong decided to put on an aerial exhibition to welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then...