Word: basra
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...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 Air Force had volunteered-the listeners' eyes shifted to a beet-red, grinning stalwart beside Pilot Cobham-and together they had whirred high over the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, drifting slightly out of their course and bringing up in the Dutch East Indies There...
Died. A. B. Elliott, British air plane mechanic; at Basra, Irak (near Bagdad). A wandering Arab shot him while on duty flying low over the desert in a plane piloted by Lieut. Alan Cobhain...
...pass near Strasbourg. Austrians and Hungarians glanced aloft shortly after. Dour Serbs eyed its flight over their dark mountains. Quarrelsome Bulgars and the night-watchmen of Constantinople heard its thin droning and all night it sped on over Anatolia, Kurdistan, down the Euphrates Valley to meet the dawn. At Basra in Irak, where the Euphrates, led by the Tigris, floods down to the Persian Gulf and men are said to have flown on magic carpets, the speck finally came to earth. Captain Ludovic Arrachart and his brother Paul then cabled their whereabouts to the French Air Ministry, claiming a world...