Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sandwich- To get to Royal St. George's Club in time for his first-round match, Brigadier General Alfred Cecil Critchley, London sports promoter, sailed from New York on the Normandie, took a speedboat to the dock at Southampton, chartered a plane, flew to the course, waved at the starter to identify himself, landed at a nearby airport, rushed up to the first tee. He arrived three minutes after the match had been awarded to his opponent by default...
Next day the Cavalier flew back to Bermuda and the Bermuda Clipper flew to Baltimore to test the transatlantic air base now abuilding there. Passenger service is promised this month. Round-trip fare will probably be about twice that of a steamer ticket...
Said Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, who flew over the Pole in 1926: "This is a superb undertaking. ... It is my guess that the group . . . will drift over toward Spitzbergen or Greenland and in order to stay at the Pole they will have to move their base periodically in the direction of Alaska...
...years ago last week a slim unknown named Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris and on into history. To publicize the Paris International Exposition this summer, French Air Minister Pierre Cot last year announced an air race for 3,000,000 francs ($135,000) from New York to Paris on the tenth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight no matter what the weather (TIME, Sept...
Fortnight ago, when Merrill flew the Atlantic both ways (TIME, May 17 & 24), Colonel John Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of aeronautics, remarked that he disliked such "stunt flights." Last week, three days before the anniversary of Lindbergh's flight, Col. Johnson announced that the U. S. would not permit the anniversary race. Said he: "We are trying to encourage transatlantic flying, but we don't want to jeopardize it. ... The Commerce Department is charged with the duty of safety in the air and this race is a highly hazardous undertaking. There will...