Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, found the release mechanisms of their auxiliary wing fuel tanks jammed. Unless the empty tanks could be jettisoned at once, the fighters would have to break for home, their mission incomplete. Their wing pilots came to the rescue. At 300 m.p.h., one mile above ground, the wing men flew formation to within 18 inches of the lead ships, then batted the tanks off with their wingtips...
...Andrew D. Drumm Jr. flew his private plane from his own field in Fallon, Nev. to Bishop, Calif. He had no clearance, no pilot's license. When challenged upon landing, he asserted that Civil Aeronautics Administration regulations did not apply to him. His arguments: he had been flying for 20 years, did not use CAA facilities, was not engaged in commerce. CAA inspectors ignored all this, ordered him grounded...
...London Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air, reported that during the war 26,000 German and Italian planes had been shot down in combat, not counting the Russian front. In the very week of Sir Archibald's report, the western Allies flew an estimated 30,000 sorties over Europe; on the lightest day of that week, 3.600 U.S. and British planes were...
Otherwise the outside world intruded only when planes brought in mail pouches, about every other day, and once when Prime Minister Curtin of Australia, President Picado of Costa Rica, their wives and Mrs. Roosevelt flew in for lunch and the afternoon. Lieut. Commander Franklin Roosevelt Jr. dropped by for dinner one evening. The President kept paper work to a minimum, but even so had to sign a lot of papers-including commissions for notaries public in the District of Columbia...
...long before the fighting had stopped on Guadalcanal, he visited the island. Last February he flew to Kwajalein, in the wake of furious shelling. He gets along fine with the admirals. Last week speculation remained brisk whether the President will shortly remove the "Acting" from Jimmy Forrestal's new title...