Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle-aged German photographer named Otto Hillig and a youthful Danish farmer-turned-aviator named Holger Hoiriss flew in a Bellanca last week from New York to St. John, N. B.?and the 1931 season of transatlantic flying was officially opened. They settled down to await another break in the weather for their hop to Denmark; in Hillig's words, "just a couple of immigrants going home." Few days after the "immigrants" start, beauteous Socialite Ruth Nichols followed in her fast Lockheed. Forced to land into the setting sun at the St. John airport and partially blinded...
Since 1928 when she flew as "baggage" from Newfoundland to Wales in a monoplane piloted by the late Wilmer Stultz and Lou Gordon, Miss Earhart had to submit to such labels as "Lady Lindy," "First Lady of the Air," etc. Her name was bought by Cosmopolitan, which engaged her as aviation editor, then by Transcontinental Air Transport, which appointed her assistant to the general traffic manager. Last autumn she was given charge of publicity for Ludington Line (plane-per-hour) operating between New York and Washington, a job lately delegated elsewhere. Few months ago Miss Earhart married her friend...
...speeding plane like the weighted tail of a kite, while the cursing pilot struggled to stabilize the ship. At length the officer signalled to Osborne to cut himself loose and descend by the emergency 'chute strapped upon his chest. But Private Osborne had no knife. Then another plane flew up, maneuvered above Osborne while an officer lowered a sandbag to which a knife was tied. After a half-hour's effort, Osborne caught the knife, freed himself, opened his second 'chute and landed safely in a corn field. There his irate instructors found him, angrily informed...
...Army round-world flyers fought fog, wind and snow along the Alaska-Aleutian route (that was in May). Five years later the Russian plane Land of the Soviets crossed eastward from Siberia to Alaska. Last month little Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara, armed with Japanese goodwill to President Hoover, flew a small Junkers seaplane from Tokyo as far as Shana in the Kuriles. There his ship was so badly buffeted that he temporarily abandoned the flight, returned to Tokyo for a new plane...
...clouds of migratory grasshoppers dropped from the sky. He cooked and ate them, kept life going till a cruising Chinese pilot saw his beacon. Author Garnett ends his story thus: "When they fell in waterless desert places they died; where they passed they left desert ; they sprouted wings and flew. Their seed sprang again in wingless armies from the earth. They had no reason and little that might be called instinct. All their movements are due to the heat of the sun. They are thermotropic...