Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Sabin Carr of Yale and Dubuque, Iowa, holder of the world's pole-vault record, failed to jump 14 feet...
...Royal Air Force airdrome at Martlesham Heath, some 75 miles northeast of London. Capable of carrying 20 persons, the ship was taken up by Squadron Leader J. Noakes and one mechanic, each wearing a parachute strapped to his back. The Inflexible has a wing spread of 150 feet and weighs fifteen tons-the world's largest all-metal monoplane. Built on the Air Ministry's orders, her purpose is a secret...
...bracing wires, while her body swung outside the plane like a stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs, and one of the tragedies of her life was the death of her favorite borzoi, who jumped thirty feet out of an open window and broke his neck in a vain attempt to reach her side...
...Enthusiastically, Pilot Seypelt told the U. S. tourist of a tiny plane made in Stuttgart, after the designs by one Hans Klemm. Together they went to Stuttgart, found a little monoplane, with long low-set wings and a short body, the latest idea in European airplane design. Only 22 feet long, it had a wingspread of 43 feet. A 29-h.p. Klemm-Daimler motor furnished the power to carry about 400 pounds...
...authorities. The plane had dual controls and one of its features is that it handles so easily you could land on a dime. As a matter of fact, one time coming down unexpectedly into a bora, as the strong winds of northern Italy are called, we landed within sixty feet. The Yankee Doodle carries ten gallons of gasoline and that gives it a range of about 475 miles...