Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Langmuir, having studied ballistics formulae, showed that if the botfly flew at 800 m.p.h. the wind pressure against its head would be 8 Ib. per sq. in., "probably enough to crush the fly." The power needed to maintain such a velocity would be 370 watts or about one-half horsepower -which is, as Dr. Langmuir exclaims, "a good deal for a fly!" Also, the fuel requirement would be so high that the insect would have to consume more than its own weight of food every second...
...gunning troops from his plane in daring swoops and dives directly over the trenches. Romantic Venice was only a few minutes flight from the front, and Italian beauties got the greatest thrills of their lives, bedding in palaces beside the Grand Canal with a national hero who in fact flew off at dawn to fight the Austrians, returned for lunch or dinner at the latest...
...time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen 500 ft. above raging San Joaquin River, surrounded by rocky mountain peaks. Thereafter, six days of search produced no trace...
Last week twelve war planes from China (said by the Japanese to be Soviet planes) finally flew across the 120-mile-wide Formosa Strait, escorted by pursuit planes, and rained bombs on Japanese-owned Formosa. They flew so high that accurate bombing was impossible. From the ground the attacking craft could be seen with the naked eye only as minute specks. Eight were killed, 29 wounded. Property damage was small...
...with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife (Isak Dinesen) for one incident, when she flew unarmed at two lions that had attacked an ox, lashed them into the jungle with a stock whip...