Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Beck flew from Warsaw to talk this over last week with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, brilliant young Vilhelms Munters, who emerged as a leading small-power statesman when he recently chair-manned the League Advisory Committee on the Far East. En route to Latvia, Colonel Beck created a great Baltic stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling...
...swift, silver Lockheed monoplane that Hughes had whipped off Floyd Bennett Field for Paris a little over four days earlier, was the most foolproof private plane that ever flew. It had two radio compasses, three radio transmitters (see p. 50), three receivers. It had a Sperry gyro-pilot, a new type drift indicator, robot navigational control. It had a crew of four men trained in the use of all these instruments...
...such Lockheeds were ordered grounded for correction of an apparently faulty tail surface detail. The man who ordered that grounding was Bureau of Air Commerce Inspector A. L. Niemeyer. Later, all the Lockheed Zephyrs were satisfactorily corrected, were actively in the air again. Last week Inspector Niemeyer himself flew into Billings along with seven other passengers in Flight Four's ten reclining seats. At 2:53 Flight Four taxied out the runway for its take-off for Chicago. As passengers sleepily groped for their safety belts the ship took off. Up it went to 100 feet, then. drunkenly...
Averaging 218 miles an hour Pilot Hughes flew the Lindbergh route as it never had been flown before. When Manhattan went to bed he was veering off Newfoundland. When it rose for breakfast he was over Ireland. Before lunch the radio reported him in at Le Bourget Field, 3,641 miles away in Paris, 16 hours, 35 minutes after his takeoff, more than twice as fast as Lindbergh's time, 33 hours, 30 minutes...
Last week 50 foreign newsmen flew to Vienna to see for themselves whether "internal trouble" was developing in newly-absorbed Austria. There they questioned their host, hard-boiled Reich Commissioner for Austria Josef Bürckel, about his No. 1 prisoner, Kurt von Schuschnigg, independent Austria's last Chancellor. Information gleaned: Dr. Schuschnigg will be tried for "high treason" the Nazi regime does not recognize marriage by proxy, hence holds that the last Chancellor's reported marriage in June to the Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, in which the groom was represented by his brother, is not valid...