Word: amphibianism
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...Convict Madden, who says he is in the "laundry business," has ordered an elaborately equipped biplane from his instructor, Major Thomas Lanphier, U. S. A. retired, partner of Col. Lindbergh in Bird Aircraft Co. Rumrunner Higgins. who calls himself a "lobster fisherman," is said to own an Ireland amphibian. When they arrive at Roosevelt Field for lessons, their first questions are: "Madden been here today?", "Higgins around...
...contact with the men he said were in possession of the child, Col. Schwarzkopf lent a polite, attentive ear. Mr. Curtis described and gave the approximate position of the fishing smack on which he had supposedly interviewed the child's captors. The Coast Guard sent 39 craft and three amphibian planes to find it, with no success. His identification of the criminals by nicknames proved similarly untrustworthy. At last, early on the fifth morning after the child's body was found, he broke down and confessed that "all the information he had given was the result of his imagination...
...glittering aquamarine, white & silver Sikorsky amphibian bought by an insurance company for William Randolph Hearst Jr. to replace one which was rammed and sunk by a fishing boat off Manteo...
...Flying Fool." A loop, another loop, a snap roll, a series of slow rolls, an Immelman. . . . Crowds at the Miami All-American Air Races had seen such stunts done before, but never by a plane like this one?a tiny Curtiss Teal amphibian. Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder with Forest O'Brine of the world's refueling duration record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died...
...those who wonder why Pilot Hinkler suddenly popped out of his long obscurity to hop oceans, Editor Grey reveals a story: Few years ago Hinkler financed the building of a new small tandem-engined amphibian named the "Ibis," with funds made from his Australia flight. Unable to interest British capital he came to the U. S. in 1930. found capital even scarcer. Then a plan to make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs...