Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near Santa Fe. The request followed the flyer's telling the doctor with awe of a Mayan temple city he had accidentally seen last February while flying over Quintana Roo, jungle- covered Mexican territory. Two green eyes had seemed staring up at him from among the trees. He flew lower. The eyes became pools before a pyramid temple. Tumbled around were the ruins of a city approximately eight miles in diameter. Flyer Lindbergh wanted to return there with aerial cameras. But Dr. Merriam advised him that there was more convenience and immediate utility in photographing the Santa Fe Indian...
Schlee Hurt. Two years ago Edward F. Schlee and William Brock flew eastward across the Atlantic and Eurasia as far as Tokyo. Their fame helped set them up in business at Detroit as the Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp. sales agents. Last week at Detroit, Flyer Schlee was turning over a plane propeller by hand, to start the motor. He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor. His motor did not start. The propeller kicked back, struck him, tore flesh, broke an arm bone, concussed his brain. Detroit surgeons found that he had a fair chance...
Ingalls Inspects. David Sinton Ingalls. Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of Aeronautics, last week began an air inspection trip to all Navy stations and bases. He flew his own plane solo, and, like a cavalry officer with his aide trotting behind, had Commander R. P. Molten flying along in another plane...
...fellow in shiny boots and polo pants riding a slick horse. Well, it hurts in a way to see these mail pilots climbing up into heated cabins or cockpits and talking to somebody on the ground over the radiophone." Thus re-pined E. Hamilton Lee, 37, who flew the first experimental air mail routes for the Government eleven years ago. Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed 1,000,000 miles of flying. He works for Boeing Air Transport...
That Pilots Jackson and O'Brine flew continuously much longer than anything that breathes ? bird or insect ? had ever done before...