Word: airships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Roy Knabenshue, 83, aviation pioneer, member of the famed "Early Birds" (among others: Orville Wright, Igor Sikorsky, Glenn Martin), first to fly (in 1904) a motor-controlled airship in the U.S.; in Los Angeles...
...whose collected works probably do not contain a four-letter word, changed '"bloody" to "ruddy" and dropped his last name for fear his bosses would regard an off-hours fictioneer as "not a serious person." The peak of Shute's engineering career was his work on the airship R. 100, in which he made a triumphant transatlantic crossing to Canada and back in 1930. Short weeks later, an ill-fated sister ship, the R. 101, crashed and burned. Shute chalked the tragedy up to bureaucratic bungling, for which he conceived a lifelong, livid distaste. Engaged to be married...