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Word: dehaviland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Lost. Lieutenant Commander H. C. MacDonald, D. S. C. (British) R. N. (retired), and a DeHaviland Gypsy Moth biplane; between Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, and the Eastern Hemisphere. Lieutenant Commander MacDonald set out at noon of Oct. 17 in a plane which had a cruising radius of 3,600 miles, which had a wing spread 20 feet shorter than Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis; which, like Lindbergh's plane, carried no radio apparatus, toted no pontoons, but had one 80-100 h. p. motor (Lindbergh's developed 200 h. p.). Unlike Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

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