Word: diego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...echelons. A total of 32 tons of bombs were dropped on the cantonment area between La Wavrille and Damvillers. This formation was strongly attacked by the enemy but our flyers brought down 12 enemy and lost but one of their own airplanes. . . . "Both at Rockwell Field, San Diego, Calif., and at Payne Field, West Point, Miss., there were flights involving a large number of planes at the post-Armistice Day celebration on Thanksgiving Day, 1918. At both of these places at least 200 planes were flying together in the formations. These were practically all training planes. "At the close...
...Brock Aircraft Corp ), once famed as world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last year. But Flyers Brock & Schlee beat by many hours all previous records over their course...
...could fall back on some good old Marine Corps unprintable phrases, but I will just say that I HEAR lusty-lunged Marines singing the strains of "Sweet Adeline" in Quantico, Va., Baltimore, Washington, D. C., San Diego, California, Tientsin, China, and many other places, and down in front of the stands, wearing a pleased smile, is the one and only Smedley Darlington Butler, Major General, U. S. Marine Corps. You will find that the General has many more friends than enemies...
...seized San Francisco, was rapidly invading northern California, repel them, huge bombers roared cross-country from Langley Field, Va. Tiny pursuit planes streaked away from Selfridge Field Mich. Attack planes skimmed off from Fort Crockett, Tex. At Mather Field, Sacramento, these squadrons converged with others from Seattle and San Diego to form an air force of nearly 200 battle planes, the largest gathered together in the U. S. since...
...swoops of his Lockheed Air Express. Last week he set out (with special permission from the Department of Commerce) to cross the continent in a cabin glider towed at the end of a 300-ft. rope behind a power plane. First day he was towed 400 mi., from San Diego to Tucson, with a stop at Yuma and Phoenix. At such way stations he unhooked his "car"' from its "locomotive" and coasted to earth, demonstrating the possibility of air '"trains...