Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While a Norwegian sealer was visiting White Island off Spitzbergen last month and discovering the 33-year-lost remains of Explorer Salomon August Andrée & comrades (TIME, Sept. 1), an airplane full of Canadians flew northeast from Copper Mine in the Northwest Territories to King William Island on an expedition to chart arctic coastlines for the Canadian Government. At King William Island, Major L. T. Burwash, leader of the party, set out on foot with his two companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away the snow...
Their prize money earned, Flyers Coste & Bellonte flew away from Dallas next morning, stopped overnight in Louisville, flew on again to Manhattan...
...circuitous route most of the bad spots were avoided until near Newfoundland when fog forced the flyers to climb to 3,000 ft. Their closest call Capt. Coste described in the New York Times. Hugging the coast of Nova Scotia so as not to lose sight of land, they flew beneath lowhanging rain clouds: ". . . We flew on, skirting a precipice. Suddenly there loomed up out of the mist another precipice on our port side. We were caught between the steep banks of a river. . . . It was a tight place. Bellonte was at the controls and he had to think fast...
Coste v. Lindbergh. In everyone's mind last week was a comparison of the two feats-Lindbergh's & Coste's. Lindbergh, alone in a Ryan monoplane powered by a 200 h. p. Wright Whirlwind motor, without radio, flew eastward 3,610 mi. in 33 hr. 29 min. His fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark...
Ladies' Endurance. Mlle Maryse Bastie, sometimes called "most beauteous flyer in the world," flew over Le Bourget Airfield for 37 hr. 54 min. last week, broke the women's world record for endurance...