Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imperial Airways, the only organization in Britain operating regular air routes, is to be subsidized by the Government until 1939, when it is expected to pay for itself. Delhi, it was learned last week, is to be pushed as a new Indian terminus. Thus is success rewarded, for last year Imperial Airways carried 52,000 passengers 2,500,000 miles without accident to a single passenger...
...bold experiment in giant aircraft, the Inflexible had a successful test flight at the Royal Air Force airdrome at Martlesham Heath, some 75 miles northeast of London. Capable of carrying 20 persons, the ship was taken up by Squadron Leader J. Noakes and one mechanic, each wearing a parachute strapped to his back. The Inflexible has a wing spread of 150 feet and weighs fifteen tons-the world's largest all-metal monoplane. Built on the Air Ministry's orders, her purpose is a secret...
Dark, not unattractive, graceful, habitually well-gowned and bejeweled, Miss Mackay was the envy of most women. Her silver Rolls-Royce flashed by at breakneck speed. Her horses invariably galloped. She even participated in an "outside loop," most dangerous of all stunts in air, with Capt. E. C. D. Herne as her pilot. (Her safety-strap broke during the loop, but she clung with amazing wit and courage to bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs...
Four other women have tried to span the Atlantic by air and none has succeeded...
...program includes several well known selections. Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in E miner" and an air of his "My Dearest Jesu" will be played, Part of Widor's Fourth Symphony, the "Andaute Cantabile", is also to be played. An air, "Erry Valley", from "The Messiah", by Handel, is one of the finest on the schedule...