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Word: fibula (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Sportsmen. In a 40-h.p. Klemm-Daimler sport monoplane, Pilot Wolfram Hirth and Sportsman Oscar Weller reached Iceland on their way from Berlin to Chicago via Greenland and Labrador. The 770-lb. plane carried no radio, but Pilot Hirth carried a cigaret holder made from the fibula of his amputated left leg. At Iceland the sea looked so wide, their ship so small, that flyers Hirth & Weller decided to go back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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