Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME'S headline in the July 27 issue "For Drinking" captioning story of James Goodwin Hall's record-breaking flight to Cuba is misleading. Famed Crusader Hall neither flew to Cuba to get a drink nor to indicate that the Crusaders favor drinking...
...Shipping Board had contributed for the occasion the old wartime freighter Mt. Shasta which was towed 60 mi. out to sea. In heavy weather an Army bombardment squadron headed out from Langley Field, flew around for four hours and returned to make a forced landing 25 mi. from home. Observers aboard Coast Guard craft near the target declared the Army pilots never even found the Mt. Shasta. The bombers retorted they found the freighter all right but did not try to sink her because of bad weather...
Hardy Pilot Cramer, accompanied by Radioman Oliver Pacquette, was on his way more than a week before he was discovered. From Detroit he flew his Diesel-powered plane to Hudson Bay, Great Whale, Wakeham Bay; thence to Pang-nirtung, Baffin Island; across the Davis Strait and across the Greenland ice cap-a route never before negotiated by airplane to Iceland; dropped down to the sea with engine trouble, made repairs, flew on to the Faroe Islands; the Shetlands; again eluded observers...
...keep from toppling before interviewers. Now he was in England two days ahead of the speed record set by his good friend Lieut. Charles W. A. Scott, Royal Air Force boxer (TIME, June 15) in the same type of plane. After a hurried luncheon at Pevensey, Pilot Mollison flew 45 mi. farther, to Croydon, almost mowed down a pet kangaroo brought to the airdrome by one of an admiring...
...that silenced alarmists. Bad weather bound the flyers for three days and two nights at Aklavik, where they were lionized by the 35 white residents and the hundred or so Eskimos (to whom Col. Lindbergh was "Big Airplane Man"). When the fog cleared along the Arctic coast the Lindberghs flew on to icebound Point Barrow, Alaska, to the indescribable delight of the residents who had received neither visitors nor mail nor supplies from "outside" for four months. Bad weather set in again. Meanwhile in the U. S. there was talk that the real purpose of the Lindberghs' flight...