Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawk Pursuit," explained Prisoner Dahl. "My parachute landed me in the midst of a company of Moors we had been bombing the daylights out of for two or three days. I'm lucky to be alive, all right, because you can imagine how those Moors felt about enemy airmen...
...Maxim Gorky, sent it down to destruction with a loss of 49 lives. Month ago when three of Gromov's countrymen made a spectacular flight from Moscow over the top of the world to Vancouver (TIME, June 28), he wanted to do better. He and two other airmen were ushered into the Kremlin sanctum of Joseph Stalin, who was flanked by Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov, Premier Molotov and other Red bigwigs...
Dictator Stalin questioned Gromov at length, conferred with his aides, finally told the three airmen to go ahead. At dawn one morning last week. Pilot Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making...
...deal directly and put away childish "greetings"? One has a feeling that a German University would never be afraid to tell Harvard, if it did not want to come to one of our celebrations, the reasons for not wanting to come. The German spirit, the spirit of the airmen who met their doom at Lakehurst, would never have scrupled to make plain their feelings...
...Capricornus took off from Southampton with five men, one woman and 65 mailsacks to fly non-stop to Alexandria on a final experimental trip. Over Lyons a few hours later the British pilot ran into a severe snowstorm. Inept like most European airmen at blind flying, he got lost, circled through the murk while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help...