Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zeppelin dock at Akron. A sharp gust whipped her tail (which now sports the Nazi swastika). Safe-playing Dr. Eckener knew the ship could not be docked in such a ground wind; rather than ride the night out at the mooring mast, he let his passengers ride it out aloft...
...been studying maps and he was certain the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia offered an ideal soaring site. The Blue Ridge Mountains, a great wall from Pennsylvania to Georgia, was sure to catch the prevailing winds and turn them upward into precisely the sort of currents that keep sailplanes aloft for hours. To test his theory Dick du Pont invited the pilots, as his guests, to an informal meet centering at the Swannanoa Country Club near Waynesboro, atop the Blue Ridge in western Virginia. Last week this meet got under way. Besides Pilot du Pont in his new Bowlus sailplane Albatross...
...first All-Union Aviation Festival last week. A small crowd of 10,000 spectators trooped out to Moscow's Octobrisky Airport, impassively watched the nation's largest airplane, the giant ANT-14, waddle across the field, lift its saurian tail, lumber aloft. Suddenly in a spatter of color the world's record for mass parachute jumping was broken.* Thirty-six graduates of the Soviet parachute school, some of them women, issued from the side door of the ANT-14 like bees from a hive. Ten others leaped from a bomber. Each 'chute was red. white...
...there would be real rivalry between the Davisons for the first kill, since they meant to shoot only at "Shambas," vicious-tempered outlaws.* Mrs. Davison's letter described their airplane flight up the Nile's twisting 2,500-mi. length to meet the Johnsons. After an hour aloft, they fervently wished themselves back at Cairo. "I give you my word " wrote Mrs. Davison, "it was worse than any dream of torment Dante could ever have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even ... at 10,000 feet, and if we tried a mere peep through windows our eyes...
...grandstand big-framed Roscoe Turner, a clashing figure despite his coat of grime, received from Mary Pickford the Thompson Trophy-a gold plaque of Icarus, Greek myth boy, stretching winged arms aloft toward a modern racing plane. Also he mentally counted a third fat purse -$3,375. Admirers back-thumped him as the first man ever to clean up the three main events of the meet...