Word: cobham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added Sir Alan Cobham, a pioneer England-to-Australia flyer: "The possibilities of strafing from the air have become so uncivilized that it has become beyond war. Lord Castlerosse knows nothing about...
...received full fame for his exploits. "To give Smith his rightful place in history," Liberty magazine last week published a collection of testimonials, solicited from 26 outstanding airmen by Aviation Writer Richard Carroll. Under the heading "They Call Him Daddy." appeared the pictures and comments of Atcherly, Byrd, Chamberlin, Cobham, Doolittle, Hawks, Rickenbacker, von Gronau, many another crack flyer-all lifting peans of superlative praise for Kingsford-Smith. Some, like "Al" Williams, called him the "outstand-ing pilot of the age." Others more conservative, like Germany's Herman Koehl, expressed their "greatest admiration." A conspicuous paragraph in the alphabetical...
...unqualified lie. The man was an English mechanic who I discovered, was a most brutal wife beater. A friend told me of it and I told the friend to have his wife tell Gillard that the next time he beat her, to come over here ["The Merry Mills," Cobham Va.] with her flock of children and I'd put her and them up at two farm houses on this place with my farmer and wife. He beat her shortly after. She and children fled here, while Gillard was out walking. He came home and followed her here. I always...
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...about 20 attempts, four London-Australia Sir flights Ross besides Smith and Hinkler's crew of were five, 30 completed: days; 1926, 1919, Sir Alan Cobham, 62 days: 1928, Capt. William Newton Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, 32 days; 1929, Lieut. J. Moir, crashed 100 miles from Port Darwin...