Word: downwind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the Due de Morny, who didn't mind the people as long as they didn't come at him downwind, Biddle and Bullitt have had to learn how to shake hands with the grubby masses without visibly wincing at the thought of a soiled white glove. But long before Joe Kennedy was appointed to London, Bullitt-who in Paris goes everywhere, sees everybody, knows all-had made himself a diplomatic success...
...times to 16,000 ft. He had started with 525 gallons, but after passing Philadelphia he began to worry about his gas. When he sighted his destination, Floyd Bennett Field, he decided he was just about dry. So, instead of circling to come in upwind, he streaked in downwind for a "hot" landing. His wife, watching from the ground, put her hand to her mouth. But Pancho got down neatly and smoothly at about 115 m.p.h...
Even before the dangerous downwind landing, Sarabia's friends had their fingers crossed. His plane, the Q.E.D., had an unlucky history. In 1934 in the Granville Brothers' factory (Springfield, Mass.) it was built for Jacqueline Cochran to fly in a London-Melbourne race. Miss Cochran was forced down at Bucharest. Later the Q.E.D. was entered in four important U. S. races, never finished one. Last year Sarabia bought it from Dealer Charles Babb of Los Angeles...
...Malcolm shifted to second at 100 m. p. h., to high at 200. A whining blue streak of speed, his seven-ton monster covered the course mile in 13 seconds, tore her six tires to shreds. Sir Malcolm did better in the downwind return mile, brought his average to 276.816 m. p. h., a new record but far short of his goal...
However uninspiring, the 280 m.p.h. mark earned an additional $1,135 for Roscoe Turner, the able, gaudy flyer who collected $5,050 last fortnight by winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Last week his Wedell-Williams racer flashed off a 249 m.p.h. lap downwind...