Word: airport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nichols, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Phoebe Omlie, Thea Rasche. The second day out Miss Crosson crashed fatally. Others had accidents, which they attributed to sabotage (not confirmed by investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from the Cleveland airport. The Department of Commerce tried to evict Miss Rasche en route because her license had expired. She continued. Winner was Mrs. Thaden, with a Travel Air in 20½ hrs. flying time. Winner in the light plane division was Mrs. Omlie, with a Monocoupeaon...
...original subscribers to TIME?the inimitable. As such, I am especially interested in your aeronautical columns. While I am not seeking any gratuitous publicity for our city, I would like to mention the fact that recently Wilkes-Barre officially opened an airport which may truthfully be called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With...
...Wilkes-Barre-Wyoming Valley Airport covers an area of 127 acres. It lies three miles north of the centre of business activity between the Sullivan Trail and the Susquehanna River thus accommodating land or sea planes and Amphibians. Our $40,000 brick and steel hangar is capable of housing fifteen planes and is also equipped with a first-class machine shop. A $10,000 restaurant, adjacent to the hangar serves spectators and visiting pilots with excellent cuisine. At present the port boasts of four ships?two Warner Travel Airs, an Aero-Avian and one CH 300 Bellanca Monoplane...
...nearby ports of entry are not incompatible, as the Government indicated last week by designating both Ford Airport at Dearborn and Grosse Isle Airport near Detroit 15 miles apart. A third gateway for foreign air commerce named last week is Newport, Vt. Thus there are 13 airports of entry in the U. S. - last week's three and Key West, Miami, St. Paul, Albany, San Juan, Seattle, Lake Union (near Seattle), Newark (N. J.), San Diego, Los Angeles (all ports under Los Angeles jurisdiction...
...were for damages to houses caused by planes. American Insurance Co. of Newark, N. J., figured that $1.56 a year was sufficient premium for $2,500 insurance. Continental Insurance Co. of New York figured $3 the yearly premium for $2,500 insurance on property within one mile of an airport, $2.50 for property between one and five miles from airports, $2 for properties farther away...