Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Janeiro last week. As he left there for Buenos Aires and Graham Land south of Cape Horn, his supply and base ship William Scorseby sailed from Simonstown, South Africa. Waiting for him since last year at Deception Island is the airplane which he and Carl Ben Eielson flew over Graham Land (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928). Pilot Eielson now is in Alaska developing an aviation line for the Aviation Corp. With Sir Hubert are Parker Cramer, who this summer made a second unsuccessful try to fly from Illinois to Europe by way of the Arctic Ocean (TIME, July 15). Also along...
...support of athletics (and the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.), and can see every home game free because of that. As the footballers scrimmaged, a plane piloted by one Johnnie Howe who was having motor trouble in the rain, sought to land, but flew away when the players came within sight. Wallace A. Wade, University athletic director and football coach, swore out and had served on Pilot Howe a warrant charging him with "recklessly driving a motor vehicle" and scaring his football squads...
Fritz von Opel, youthful and imaginative automobile maker of Frankfort, Germany, after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
...last week saved Farmer Walter Schiffer's home at Evansville, Ind. from burning. The barn and smokehouse had burned to earth, the granary was throwing its flames at the house. Neighbors were carrying furniture and gear outdoors. Then-the flyer appeared. All stopped to gape while he, intelligent, flew between house and granary 40 times, fanning the flames against the wind until they died down. Then off he went about his own business...
...Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely over himself and instruments, which were illuminated, gave the plane the gun. Off were the two men. Lieutenant Kelsey with his arms resting on the gunwales, Lieutenant Doolittle completely shrouded. Fourteen miles in all he flew, seeing nothing but his instruments. Certainly, assuredly, he made an excellent three-point landing within a few feet of his takeoff...