Word: air
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen Chamberlain was Civil Lord of the Admiralty (1895-1900), cabled the British Foreign Office last week his desire for a personal conference with Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard the Dolphin toward Leghorn, Italy...
Back from Peking came two superplanes to their home in Berlin. Their pilots told the Deutsche Lufthansa (Air League) that not even the Ural Mountains had been an obstacle to an eight weeks' roundtrip; that a passenger route to Peking was perfectly practicable, to be flown in stages with a total of six or seven days in the air. The Lufthansa promptly advertised a provisional service of 40 Berlin-Peking flights for next summer, perhaps with branch lines to Vladivostok and Shanghai...
...given exhibitions. Then, with his crutches strapped to the fuselage, he had flown 1,100 miles up the wintry Andes to La Paz, Bolivia, and back. After that he flew 730 miles right over the Andes, over 18,000-foot crags, snowy "saddles" and wind-blown pampas, to Buenos Aires. When he landed he had ,two gallons of gasoline left-enough for three more minutes in the air. His bones not yet having knitted properly, Lieutenant Doolittle's next expedition was to a hospital, to have them broken again, reset...
...grinning, roseate man with a shiny hat was one of the first to seize and wring the hands of the tan-faced heroes who soon came ashore from the seaplane and up the Speaker's steps-Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare congratulating Pilot Alan Cobham and a mechanic- upon completing an epic of British aviation, a 28,000-mile round trip to farthest Australia (Melbourne) in an all-British De Havilland. There was a polite telegram from King George...
Pilot Cobham, after kissing his wife and child, told them one thing he was particularly glad of: Premier Bruce of Australia had sailed for England by steamship the same day that he, Cobham, had hopped into the air, a month ago. Premier Bruce would dock that day at Marseilles and here was he, Alan Cobham, in spite of a Burmese monsoon, already home again. It spoke well for long distance flying, "from anywhere to anywhere...