Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death at Daytona" in your Aug. 23 issue, for example: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...plane was a Douglas DC2 making its regular run from Chicago to Miami. With veteran Captain Stuart G. Dietz, 33, at the controls it settled to the airport at Daytona Beach, Fla. shortly after 4 a. m. Daytona Beach has been an Eastern Air stop only since May but Captain Dietz was completely familiar with the field. Presently, with co-pilot beside him, steward and six passengers strapped in their seats in the cabin, Captain Dietz taxied to the northern end of the 3,700-ft. NW/SE runway, gave his two motors a final revving, hurtled into...
Immediately there rose a hubbub of a far different sort than follows most crashes. Said Daytona Beach Airport Manager Peter Dygert: "I am sure the pilot did not know the power line was there. ... I was not informed last night of the new line being strung. This morning I was informed that the line was placed there to give service to a small area to the west which had been interrupted when an underground cable failed...
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...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...