Word: fliers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...
...were killed last week in the scramble of 300,000 of Istanbul's inhabitants to get a look into the open coffin of the late President Kamal Atatürk. Vowing to follow her foster father to the grave, Flight Lieutenant Sahiba Gokçen, Turkish woman army flier, fasted in Istanbul's Dolmabaghche Palace, was later persuaded by physicians to pull herself together and leave for Ankara, the capital...
Died. Lieutenant Lansing C. ("Denny") Holden, 42, famed World War flying ace. soldier of fortune, archeologist, architect and Technicolor expert; when a New York National Guard plane crashed near Sparta, Tenn. Also killed in the crash was another famed War flier, Lieutenant Raymond W. Krout...
...technical opinion, Spain has been unsatisfactory, perhaps even misleading, as a war testing ground for aircraft. This war, despite all its unspeakable horrors, has not been "big stuff." A U.S. Navy-trained flier with the Leftists' Army last year wrote that the Russians had the best ships, the Germans the best-trained pilots. No man can be sure, however, to what extent Germany, Russia and Italy sent examples of their best ships to fight over Spain...
Died. Captain Herman Köhl, 50, German Wartime flier who in 1928, with Colonel James Fitzmaurice, Irish flier, and Baron Günther von Hünefeld, made the first East-West transatlantic flight; of kidney disease; in Munich...