Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Chatterton-Lukas combination is riding on busses and getting wet, his lordship decides to elope with the sister-in-law, and we see him going hell-for-leather through the night. We then hear a crash, and back through the drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful...
Upon newsstands last week appeared a booklet bearing on its cover a photograph of the wrecked plane, and this legend in red and black: 'UNCENSORED TRUTH ABOUT ROCKNE'S STRANGE DEATH! At Last-Inside Story of the Fatal Crash." The booklet merely hints that someone might have tampered with the plane; does not even hint at identity or motive. It was published in Minneapolis by Graphic Arts Corp. which is controlled by Fawcett Publications (Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang, Jim-Jam-Jems...
...cannot be killed." A naval cadet at 15, he was aboard the training ship Hogue when it was torpedoed, was rescued hours later and transferred to the Aboukir which likewise was torpedoed. A grown man and sportsman, he flew with the late Belgian Banker Alfred Loewenstein and crashed. He was piloting a speed boat at 60 m.p.h. when it broke in two. In 1929 he was one of two survivors of the crash of a Lufthansa plane in England which killed six. Lately he bought a specially built Lockheed monoplane, flew it from London to Cape Town...
...failing in a report to describe the nature of the ground where he had been forced down. Few days later he made another forced landing, rendered a florid description of the daisy field where it occurred. Henceforth his nickname was "Daisy." Last week, the day of the Kidston crash, "Daisy" Waghorn and Civilian E. R. D. Alexander were flight-testing a new bomber near Aldershot, England. It went out of control at about 300 ft. Both flyers jumped. Two days later Lieut. Waghorn died-41st fatality in the R. A. F. this year...
Escape. Day after Lieut. Waghorn's crash, within a mile of the scene, two R. A. F. planes collided in midair. Both pilots jumped, were unhurt. Same day, 13,500 ft. over Banbury, two Bristol Bulldogs smacked together. Their pilots, too, jumped safely-making twelve R. A. F. pilots saved by parachute this year...