Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secretly crowned Kaiserin of Germany, by which title she is said to be addressed at Doom. The detectives, having pondered well this tale, reflected that it brought them no nearer to recovering the crown, which was originally seized by the provisional government after the Kaiser's flight from Germany...
...Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first leg of her Rome-to-Nome transpolar flight...
...they flew north from Fairbanks, they had reached the shore of the Polar Sea with the Alaskan still ticking off miles like a great grey goose and had bountiful fuel still aboard. They had thought it a shame to land, and decided on an unscheduled reconnaissance flight due north over the seething floes. It was snowing a bitter blizzard, but far from shore the sun reappeared and they distinguished, 7,000 feet below, that the smooth sea had changed to a white inferno of hummocks ? the great polar icecap in the center of which is what geographers call...
...Josephine, as well as a small set for her tail; after explaining into a microphone for the radio public how he intends to visit the North Pole by flying in 400-mile stages from Spitzbergen with an intermediate base on Cape Morris Jessup. Greenland, taking with him only one flight companion, Chief Petty Officer Floyd Bennett, but having at call by radio in Kings Bay a reserve plane (Curtiss Oriole) manned by fellow service flyers; after reading a great many flattering, tender, hopeful, encouraging farewell messages (doubtless including one from his brother, Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, "youngest...
...whose granddaughter is Commander Byrd's pole-flight airplane named? (See SCIENCE...