Word: bernt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the name Teterboro was as familiar to the air-minded public as the word Newark is today. Across the tarmac and down the four runways of Teterboro Field, near little Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., the great and near-great flyers of the day paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most...
...upon boats for transportation. Norwegian Aero Transport expects the new passenger & mail air-service to cause a step-up in tourist business. Only three years old, the company has lines around the southern coast to Oslo, last year pushed as far north as Tromso. Technical adviser is famed Pilot Bernt Balchen, who lately returned from a survey of U. S. airlines...
...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
...Club, which holds the world's team record of 486 breaks out of 500 targets. Some famed skeet enthusiasts: President Alvan-Macauley of Packard Motor Car Co., Publisher Orson Desaix Munn of Scientific American, Major-General Hanson Edward Ely, Financier James Alexander Stillman, Brigadier-General William Mitchell, Bernt Balchen, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, John Barrymore...
Married. Lincoln Ellsworth., 52, explorer who flew over the North Pole in 1926 with the Amundsen-Nobile expedition and who plans a similar flight with Pilot Bernt Balchen over the Antarctic next December; and one Mary Louise Ulmer, 32, aviatrix; in Manhattan...