Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camera to be placed in the nose of an airplane, for photographing the terrain just before a crash...
...seconds before flames surrounded the wreck something happened which soon made more news than the crash. Three employes of the nearby plant of North American Aviation saw an injured man in the wreck, dragged him out. The Douglas company identified the passenger as "Smithin, a mechanic." But reporters learned at Santa Monica Hospital that the man with a broken leg, wrenched back and battered head was in fact Captain Paul Chemidlin, a French military observer...
...Thus the crash of the Douglas bomber proved to be not a spy story but a new chapter in U. S. foreign policy...
...laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
What three British flying officers-Group Captain George C. Pirie, Aviation Attaché at the Washington Embassy, a Royal Air Force officer and a Canadian aircraft inspector-learned last week about. the crash of Imperial Airways' Bermuda-bound flying boat they kept to themselves. The Cavalier itself lay peacefully not far from the scandal-smeared hull of the steamer, Vestris (1928), 300 miles from where the Mono Castle burned (1934). But it was no secret that the Cavalier, like these ill-fated steamships, had been caught in circumstances for which it was unprepared and had muddled through pretty sloppily...