Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since her husband died of pneumonia in the rescue of the Bremen flyers from Greenly Island "five years ago, Mrs. Floyd Bennett has been living a lonely life in Brooklyn. Nothing interests her much except talking aviation with friends of her late husband-opportunities for which are rare. Last week Mrs. Bennett, who used to fly a lot as a passenger with her husband, announced she would learn to fly at Floyd Bennett Field, New York's Municipal Airport, "for something to do" and "to keep the name of Floyd Bennett...
...still and watch. At night, the red obstruction lights on outlying buildings and poles, the lower amber lights stretching around the field to mark it for invisible arrivals from the sky, and the beacon revolving like a spotlight groping for the actor, make a big airport such as Floyd Bennett Field into a gigantic theatre where mass drama can take place. There were easily 50,000 people in the audience at Floyd Bennett one night last week, waiting in the stage-like dark for Wiley Post to come back from around the world, whither he had set out just...
...evening after Wiley Post's homecoming, Floyd Bennett Field was thronged again. A Sunday crowd was there to see Britain's favorite flyers, brawny Capt. James Allan Mollison and his nervy wife, Amy Johnson Mollison. end a nonstop flight from Wales. Theirs was a fantastic venture. They intended to rest a few days in New York, then take off for Bagdad in one jump for a distance record of 6,000 mi. Then they would hop home to London, cash in enough on publicity to retire for life...
...Mollisons' eyelids were heavy, their muscles shaky, their fuel low. At 9:30 p. m. the Seafarer turned in for the airport at Bridgeport, Conn., 60 mi. short of Floyd Bennett. It buzzed low over the field but instead of heading into the wind, only safe way of taking off or landing a plane, it came downwind, zoomed aloft again. The field manager hopped into a plane, tried to lead the Mollisons to earth by making a landing into the wind in the floodlights. It was no use. The Seafarer, after circling wretchedly six times, stuck to its curious...
...wreck where it had cracked up in the wilderness, result of a frozen oil line. He needed another plane. A Brooklyn brewer whom he had never met turned out to be his pillar of hope. When Jimmie Mattern was first lost, a group of friends at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. were determined to find him. In their search for funds someone introduced them to Irving Friedman, sleek president of Brooklyn's Kings Brewery. Brewer Friedman is no flyer. But "they sounded so sincere, don't you know?" He gave them money to buy the sturdy old Bellanca...