Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct a misstatement in TIME regarding a flight made by Roscoe Turner from Miami to Newark LTiME, Jan. 28]. You state "Turner took off ... ostensibly to break Rickenbacker's . . . record," but that a regular transport plane on the same day flew Miami-New York an hour faster than Turner, implying a race...
...plane Col. Turner flew is the United Air Lines' Boeing he and Clyde Pangborn used in the London-Melbourne race last fall and has a speed of more than 200 miles an hour. FRANK L. CURTIS...
...twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, steamed toward Jamaica (via Panama) a week behind his itinerary. Promptly on schedule, his younger brother and new sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, flew into Jamaica from Haiti, settled down to wait for tardy Gloucester...
...Moffett, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. Eight pretty girls from Macon, Ga. The huge silver bow of the ZRS-5-. . . Mrs. Moffett mounted a bunting-draped platform, pulled a red-white-&-blue cord. Two hatches in the airship's nose flopped open and out flew 48 startled pigeons. Cried Mrs. Moffett: "I christen thee Macon!"* Mighty cheers for the third dirigible built...
...Commissioner of Propaganda for the government of the South, helped stage the Canton insurrection. He could supply at least the scenery for The Royal Way from his archeological explorations in Cambodia and Siam. A publisher's assistant (house of Gallimard), he takes adventurous holidays, last year flew across the Great Arabian Desert and reported the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba (TIME, March...