Word: alan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...
...Ouwens, a Dutch hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) and, finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from the air, the Burdens fetched their comrades to the spot, taking along bear-traps...
Australian policemen struggled with, then fled from, a mob of 75,000 women fainting, men shoving and grunting, when Pilot Alan Cobham hove in sight last week over Melbourne, at the end of his flight in a seaplane from England. The ovation far outdid the holiday mood indulged in last fortnight by Port Darwin, Cobham's first point of contact with the kangaroo continent (TIME, Aug. 16). The motors of his big De Havilland ship were examined, found in flawless condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel...
...steamers and warships, then a tired great gull floating on Fannie Bay off the naval aviation grounds. Mechanics swarmed to lift the craft (a big De Havilland biplane) ashore and fit her with wheels; she was to fly on, over desert and bush, to Sydney and Melbourne. And Pilot Alan Cobham, his hand wrung red with congratulations, regaled officials with the story of his 10,000-mile flight from England in 36 days. Crossing Arabia, he had flown low over the desert when "Crack!" a Bedouin sniper had shot his mechanic stone dead. At Basra, Sergeant Ward of the Royal...