Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel in his tanks. He refuelled, flew on to Dakar. Why he undertook the hazardous flight, why he made his surprise flight from New York to Jamaica a month ago, Pilot Hinkler did not state...
...Dark. To add to his night-flying hours and some day qualify as a mail pilot. Pilot Lou Strickler, 18, flew in the moonlight one night last week around Latrobe Airport, Pa. Three friends who had been taking turns hopping with him waited on the ground, their automobile headlights marking the field to augment the airport's meagre lights. Pilot Strickler came in for a landing, "felt his plane hit something," learned to his horror that he had mowed down and killed his three friends
...international exchange the German mark rose approximately to par* last week for the first time since last May. During the July crisis, when President Hans Luther of the Reichsbank flew like a distracted June bug from Berlin to London to Paris to Basle seeking funds (TIME, July 20), the mark knelt at a low for the year...
Wiley Post, who flew the monoplane Winnie Mae around the world in eight days with Harold Gatty, sat on the edge of his bed in a Chicago hotel room one day last week, talking to a reporter for North American Newspaper Alliance while he dressed. Flyer Post...
...London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...