Word: flew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...navigator, was twice a godfather. A pass in the Coast Range of mountains east of San Diego, over which he sailed three weeks ago, was named Eckener Pass by Major Carl Spats, Army flyer, and Commander Van Arnauld de la Perier of the German cruiser Emden. In dedication they flew over the pass, dropped a parachute with a, German and a U. S. flag attached. The 'other christening was by Luft Hansa, German air transport company, who named one of its huge new trimotored Rohrback-Romar transoceanic planes the D ok tor Eckener...
...Bellmore, L. I., potent station WEAF of the National Broadcasting Co. was silent for eight hours. Reason: a bat flew between some condenser plates, died there...
...Marie D. Ames Byrd (Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the north pole, is now in Antarctica preparing to fly to the south pole): "My most awful nightmare is that the world has suddenly turned star-shaped . . . and that now there are five poles to be discovered." She lives at Boston, her parents' home, or at Winchester, Va., the Byrd home, with their four children...
...Wilda Bogert Chamberlin (Clarence Duncan Chamberlin flew the Atlantic two years ago) : "Ladies who want a grand passion had better stick to their businessmen. . . . Children are not for a flyer's wife." The Chamberlins live mostly at hotels. Mrs. Carrie Williams (Roger Quincy Williams flew the Atlantic this summer) : "For a whole year at a time I hardly see Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care...
...with elevators so large that they virtually formed a second rear wing, George Fernic, tousle-haired Rumanian, was building a monoplane with a second true wing set at its nose. His theory was that the auxiliary wing would prevent stalling. Last week at Roosevelt Field, L. I., Designer Fernic flew his machine successfully, although he could gain only 700 feet altitude. On a second trial he ran it into a wire fence, partially wrecked...