Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild duck, hypnotized with fright, flew straight into a propeller of the roaring frame crossing its path. The liner had to descend. A message flashed to London brought a new propeller in a few hours by air. The passengers re-embarked and were treated to the first night flight ever made by an Imperial Airways ship, landing at their destination none the worse for the accident. Soon Imperial Airways will have regular night schedules, planned these many months...
...riot, who, in July, 1909, performed the then unheard-of feat of flying across the English Channel. The Blériot monoplane of 1909 was something of a portent and Louis Blériot has been building aircraft ever since. Never till last week had he repeated his flight of 1909, either as pilot or passenger, "because until two years ago I considered that flying from Paris to London was dangerous." But now, as soon as he could raise two million francs, he would build another monoplane, with wings two meters thick and with four motors, and hope...
...Just prior to the Alcock-Brown flight, Pilot Harry Hawker and Lieut. MacKenzie Grieve made a bid for the Northcliffe money in a single-motored plane, but pitched into the sea short of Ireland, being rescued by a Danish tramp-steamer. The U. S. Army globe-fliers (1924) stopped at Greenland en route from Scotland. Dirigibles to cross the Atlantic without a stop: the R34 (British), 1919; the ZR3 (Los Angeles...
...Ellsworth next day denied the Herald-Tribune's article. "I don't care what Nobile writes," he said. Then he put an end to all the press stories about his reputed differences with Nobile: "I want to give Roald Amundsen 100 percent credit for the whole flight. It was his idea. He organized it and put it through. . . . I give credit to General Nobile for building the airship and for captaining it across the Polar...
Australian policemen struggled with, then fled from, a mob of 75,000 women fainting, men shoving and grunting, when Pilot Alan Cobham hove in sight last week over Melbourne, at the end of his flight in a seaplane from England. The ovation far outdid the holiday mood indulged in last fortnight by Port Darwin, Cobham's first point of contact with the kangaroo continent (TIME, Aug. 16). The motors of his big De Havilland ship were examined, found in flawless condition after a month and a half of droning through all temperatures, humidities and aridities, from the English Channel...