Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House to be congratulated by President Hoover went Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin just back from .its round-the-world flight (see p. 42). The President said: ". . . The spirit of high adventure still lives ..." and returned to his desk...
United Aircraft & Transport immediately requested the Army Air Corps to test continuous refueling flights over the transcontinental air mail route. The Corps complied, appointed Captain Ira Eaker (Question Mark refueling flight chief) and First Lieut. B. S. Thompson as pilots...
...winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining leg of her globe-trot, to Lakehurst, N. J., seemed commonplace after man's first flight across the whole vast, empty Pacific Ocean...
...noteworthy week for dirigible accomplishments beside the Graf Zeppelin's flight...
...dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep for the pilot. In commerce similar refueling possibilities might be valuable. Planes could make ground deliveries from the airship, later catching up with her in her flight, bringing up passengers, mail...