Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James W. Montee, 64, of Los Angeles, "oldest commercial pilot in the U. S." Not until his 60th birthday did he make his first solo flight, but for six years prior he had ridden in planes over California to point out that great state's scenic wonders to tourists. His three sons are commercial pilots, one of them having won a transcontinental race in a plane built entirely by his parent...
...about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half small-animal, half fairy, in which no one could fail to believe, if only because it is quaint, beautiful, impossible...
...honest). We were, in fact, so poor that for economic reasons there was nothing personal in it--my mother dropped me out of the window onto the concrete pavement. I was quite unharmed, however, and just as my mother was about to repeat the experiment from a window one flight higher our old Indian servant stopped her, Pont," pleaded the faithful red-man. "Can't you see that the Great Spirit is reserving him for a grand mission...
Alan Cobham, flyer: "When I returned to England from my 28,000-mile round trip flight to Australia I remarked, 'Aviation will make Australia [TIME, Oct. 11]. . . .In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society...
...SPLENDOUR-Thomas Burke-Doran ($2.50). London's slum man on his longest flight...