Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, a N.C. 2, two Liberty-motor flying boat, Curtiss type, built at Naval Aircraft factory, Philadelphia. Four men, oil, fuel, water, armament (machine guns and two bombs), with detonator device fixed, rations and even two carrier pigeons. Total weight: 10,440 Ibs. Flying full-load weight, specially groomed, flew continuously overhead eight hours-record at that time. This experiment was made, and successfully too, for the great effort to bomb Heligoland-Kiel Canal, never attempted due to British opposition. Forty sea planes, mates to above described, were to do the job. Eight hours to over 500 hours...
...Driver Lamb swung into a ditch to escape a collision, damaged his car though not himself & family. The airplane pilot, en route from Boston to Chicago, had made a forced "deadstick" landing for lack of fuel. He obtained some at a nearby gasoline station, taxied to a field, flew away, leaving the shocked, shaken Lambs to extricate their car, repair...
Next day the Southern Cross flew on to New York and a rowdy reception at Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Manhattan claimed the quartet as its heroes, ignored the suggestion of failure in the enforced stop in Newfoundland; saw only the glory in their achievement. From Washington hurried British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay to extend the congratulations of his government...
Bermuda Round Trip. Roger Q. Williams and Lewis A. Yancey last year flew from the U. S. to Spain, to Italy, then quarreled. Recently Yancey in a seaplane flew from Long Island to Bermuda with an interrupting forced landing at sea. Last week while he was in Buenos Aires "good-willing," Williams, with Harry P. Connors (Navy-trained navigator) and Errol Boyd (onetime Royal Air Force-trained copilot) flew from Long Island to Bermuda, did not alight, banked and returned to their start in 17 hr. 8 min., first time such trip had been done. Their ship was the Columbia...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew non-stop from Washington, D. C. to Mexico City in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, in 27 hr. He lost hours searching for the course from Tampico to Valbuena Field. †August 1920. Maj. Theodore McAuley, San Diego-Jacksonville, 19 hr. 10 min. September 1922, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, Jacksonville-San Diego...