Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, May 28--Dog tired, two valiant French airmen brought their huge silver monoplane out of blue skies onto Floyd Bennett airport today, defeated by motor trouble in their ambitions attempt to link Paris and California...
...safest repositories for secrets of U. S. aviation are Charles A. Lindbergh and Orville Wright. Both have spent years successfully resisting efforts of newshawks to make them talk. Last week Airmen Lindbergh and Wright had a good chance to teach their secretiveness to others. They went to Washington for a meeting of the executive committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, of which they are members. Laid before the committee was a complaint from the Navy and War Departments that secret aircraft developments submitted to the N.A.C.A. for research had leaked into the hands of foreign powers. Last week...
...Guard plane. Something went wrong with the engine. The plane fell out of control, crashed through a two-story house. The fuel tank exploded, flooding the house with flaming gasoline. Five negroes, including two small children, who were sitting around the dining room table, died in flames with the airmen...
...chronic carper, Mr. Simmonds found much good to report to British airmen...
...reception reached a climax next day in a grand burst of Latin emotion. First the airmen, in white uniforms and glittering gold braid, were driven to the Quirinal to be greeted by the King. Then began a march on foot down Rome's new Via Trionfale (laurel-carpeted) beneath the Arch of Constantine, unused for such purpose since the ancient Romans paraded through it on returning from the wars. Up Palatine Hill the parade trooped, into the ruins of the Stadium where Il Duce awaited them in the modest uniform of a militia corporal. General Balbo stepped forward, received...