Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the eccentric Minister of Education was out inspecting elementary schools, flew into a tantrum on discovering that many Japanese moppets now refer to their parents as papa and mama, even as pop and mom. Aghast at this latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
...minded, bought a joint interest in an Avro Avian biplane. Their ambition was to become Chinese Air Force pilots. Last week Student Pilots Wong & Fong decided to put on an aerial exhibition to welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back & forth, up & down. Then, in a flash, Wong zoomed up too close. Like a buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane...
...recently flew from Nanking to Peiping," said His Holiness. "After that experience I would rather spend many months going overland to Lhasa than attempt to go by air." On his one & only flight, according to the airplane's crew, His Holiness the Panchen Lama was "grievously and continuously air sick." Skeptics doubted last week whether the Panchen Lama was seriously starting for Tibet, expected him to settle down in Inner Mongolia with the funds he has collected...
Success came in 1912 when his seventh plane won the Petrograd Military Competition prize of 30,000 rubles. Shortly afterward a fuel-line, clogged by a dead mosquito, nearly cost Sikorsky his life in a forced landing. In 1913 (aged 24) he built and flew the world's first successful multi-motored airplane. His next model, a 4-engined monster which lifted twelve tons, made him famed as the "beardless father of Russian aviation." honored by Tsar and nation. During the War his huge Sikorsky bombers had a reputation for coming back. Of the 73 completed, only...
...automobile parts in a chicken-coop on Long Island. An able pianist. Sikorsky meanwhile attracted the attention of his fellow exile, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who helped raise $100.000 to start an aircraft factory. First U. S. built Sikorsky (S-29) carried two grand pianos from New York to Washington, flew half a million miles before being purposely crashed in a Hollywood thriller. More famed was S-35, which Sikorsky built in 1926 for Capt. Rene Fonck, French Ace of Aces, who planned a non-stop flight to Paris. Loaded with nearly 14,000 Ib. of gasoline, S-35 crashed...