Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When I flew with them, which was most of the time, I never knew where I was going or what might happen. I was merely told on short notice when to take off and then took my place in formation until we landed...
Married, Harold Gatty, 34, who flew around the world in 1931 with the late Wiley Post; to Fenna Bolderhey, 23, of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; in Queens...
...confused with Hubert Fauntleroy Julian. "The Black Eagle of Harlem" who also flew in Ethiopia. "Brown Condor'' Robinson went to Ethiopia as a newshawk, became Haile Selassie's personal pilot...
Authorities of Chiriqui Province chartered planes, flew to the mine to investigate the discovery while the Government, which under its buried treasure law is entitled to half the prospector's find, rushed a police guard to the scene to control a stampede of treasure-hunting natives. Authorities believe that the tunnel belonged to the almost-legendary La Estrella mine, worked by the Spanish conquerors. Fabulously rich, it became "lost" in the passing of four centuries. Indians, outraged by the cruel treatment of the Spaniards, are supposed to have ambushed a mule-drawn treasure train, killed the white...
...Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making about 100 m.p.h. On the "down" side they picked up radio communication with Anchorage (Alaska), Seattle and San Francisco, reported their position occasionally but not regularly. They were advised to swing east because...