Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...join the U. S. Naval Air Service. Attached to the British near Dunkerque on the Channel, he downed six German planes, won three prized medals for bravery. He came home a boy of 19 and the U. S. Navy's one and only ace. The "war" to which he flew this year was the Navy's annual game off Panama in the Pacific...
...flew down Florida, hopped to Jamaica, crossed the Caribbean to the Canal Zone?everywhere the favorite guest at most important dinners?the Navy's forces were converging in the tropics. Before them was Fleet Problem 12. Eastward across the Pacific steamed a supposedly hostile fleet composed of nine battleships, an aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Langley) with 40 planes, three "treaty" cruisers, swarms of miscellaneous craft. With them were coming transports bearing 50,000 soldiers, hundreds of crated airplanes. Their aim? was to effect a landing on the Central American coast, set up their planes, smash the Panama Canal. Sharp eyes could...
...ideal home for visiting pigeons. The crannies are comfortable and from time to time Colorado's philanthropic legislators provide a penny's worth of peanuts, prime pigeon fare. But last week the birds returned evil for good. Through a window they entered the legislative chamber, scratched, cooed, flew about the high ceiling making themselves a nuisance. Debate on a $600,000 appropriation bill was dropped, the Speaker called the janitor. The janitor called his assistant. His assistant called Electrician Fred Karns. Finally, over the protest of several legislators who fancied themselves as marksmen, it was decided that...
...with a parachute), while the pilot maneuvered toward a flat space - say 50 ft. square (a front lawn, perhaps) for a perfect landing. And what is all-important, those operations are much simpler than piloting an airplane. Even the novice could do little damage unless he flew the autogiro directly into collision, or landed it on a church steeple, powerline, or crowded street. First complete description of the autogiro, with technical details, appeared last week in the March issue of FORTUNE...
...appointed Minister of Public Works in the newly formed Aznar Cabinet. The younger de la Cierva, at 15, built with two young friends what he believes was the first successful airplane ever to be constructed in Spain. In 1919 he built the second tri-motor in the world. It flew well, but a test pilot unaccustomed to such craft banked it too low, side slipped it into a heap of wreckage. Then it was that Senor de la Cierva determined that aviation would need a ship that could be flown slow as well as fast, low as well as high...