Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since Prohibition the U. S. flag flew over the Beverwyck brewery in Albany...
Hero Control. Since Lindbergh flew to Paris, 16 other planes have reached Europe from the U. S. Nearly as many have roared eastward to disaster; some of them to oblivion, others to be rescued. In the past season alone, six Europe-bound planes dropped into the Atlantic. The Pacific likewise has taken toll. Rescue work is often as dangerous as, usually more costly than the actual flights attempted. Formerly the Department of Commerce only looked on, conceding that many transocean flights were worthwhile experiments. But nowadays, with conventional equipment, they are apt to be merely repetitious. Last week the Department...
...longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into a "sea of mud." With improvised tools she made repairs, flew on, thought to powder her nose while crossing Table Mountain at Cape Town. Mrs. Mollison did not do what her husband did at the end of his record flight: crack up in landing...
Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...
...Greenland Wai encountered no serious trouble until crossing the Bay of Bengal. About 150 mi. off Rangoon a water pump broke. Down came the plane upon a tossing sea. An S O S brought a British steamer which towed her into Rangoon. As casually as before, the plane flew on to Colombo, Bombay, Bagdad. Athens, Rome, across the Alps in a storm to Friedrichshafen...