Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George VI had been up once before as King (90 miles from Windsor to Martlesham Heath) when last week he stepped into his scarlet and blue twin-engined Airspeed Envoy. From Sandringham he flew 60 miles to Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to inspect, as Marshal of the Royal Air Force, one of the nation's military aviation colleges. Ponderously, an official announcement said the King would "enplane"* for the trip back to Sandringham. Said British dispatches afterward: "The nation breathed easier tonight when it learned over the wireless that King George had completed safely in blustery conditions his return flight...
...pilot and Pilot Fred Jones took off in a twin-motored Douglas at 8:30 p.m. Aboard were 510 gallons of gasoline, sufficient for 1,000 miles' cruising. This was fortunate, for, instead of flying the 222 miles to Washington, during the next six hours Mr. Bane & company flew 600 miles in circles...
...Wife of 1937, Chinese Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-shek went separate ways last week from Hankow, the de facto capital of China. She flew 600 miles to the comparative safety of British Hong Kong in the South. He flew 275 miles to the hottest battle sector in the North, near Suchow in fertile Shantung, "China's Breadbasket." Tighter censorship, both Chinese and Japanese, reduced most war news to rumor. It was, however, credible if conflictingly rumored...
...Musick made initial flight for Pan-American airways from Key West to Havana, and flew the first RI-motor airplane ever to be used on an airline. Recently he completed twenty-five years of perfect record flying, without accident or casualty. Always conservative, intelligently cautions, and yet daring within the safeguards of common sense, he loyally and effectively advanced Pan Air's safety record and the general progress of aviation. Fortunately there are other like him who will continue the fine tradition which he established, so that his untimely death will not stop America's forward advances in safe flying...
Soon after dawn one morning last week the four planes left Cali, Colombia for Panama. Because of adverse weather 'reports Major Frank Felix Miranda flew the Colon northeast up the valley between the ranges of the Cordilleras, sat down safely at his destination. The three Cuban planes, commanded by First Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried...