Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, an investigation was begun into an astonishing message received by M. Fonck four stormy days before the disaster, a message signed by Commandant Weiss of the French Air Force saying "Abolutely start the flight, even if you drop in the ocean." But sorrow predominated over scandal...
Warsaw editors, resourceful, instantly covered their booming blunder. It was not the daughter of Henry Ford, they said, but his granddaughter, Josephine, who was engaged to marry Count Skrzynski. Warsavians, remembering the flight of the Josephine Ford over the Pole (TIME, May 17), accepted this new rumor, beamed anew...
...Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) and, finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from the air, the Burdens fetched their comrades to the spot, taking along bear-traps, stout cages, rifles. Slain deer and boars were used to bait the lizards up to a screen, behind which Chinamen cranked the expedition...
...matter. Helen Park was flying to California. (Another winner: Margaret C. Sheehan, of Manchester, N. H., Trinity '19. Winners of the return flight from Los Angeles to Boston: Paul T. Wilson and Henry C. Fowler Jr., of Boston, seniors...
...first event was a "flight frolic of clowns" to attract the populace. Then civilians flew an elimination heat for low-powered ships entered to win the Aero Club of Pennsylvania trophy, the first home being Basil Rowe of Keyport, N. J., in a Thomas Morse SE-4. Pilot C. S. "Casey" Jones, a celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead...